Tonight, I booked flights to Paris (as well as paying a deposit on somewhere to stay). The last time I was in Paris was back in 2008, with Ryan. We managed to pack a lot in that weekend, as well as spending a day in the park getting wasted. I say wasted. I don’t drink, so that wasn’t really a factor for me. It was, however, for Ryan.
This time around, I’m going with Emily.
Emily’s currently in London for a couple of months, and during that time I had thought about going down to visit her, however, when she mentioned wanting to go to Paris, I offered to go with her, be her guide (though it’s yet to be seen how well that’ll work out).
After making sure we could both afford it all, we finally got around to booking today. We leave in 9 days. Short notice to be booking a trip like that. Especially in the height of Summer. Our options for reasonably cheap accomodation were limited and flights getting more expensive by the day.
However, as I said, it’s all booked now.
I’ll be flying out of Inverness, down to Luton, where I’ll meet Emily and we’ll fly to Charles De Gaulle airport, all on the Thursday, then on Monday, Emily leaves first thing and I leave at night. Which’ll be interesting. I opted for a cheap flight back to Glasgow, instead of flying to Luton and back up again. Because of this, my flight doesn’t leave until ten at night. Meaning I’ll have a day to kill in Paris by myself. I’m sure it won’t be too hard though — I actually already have something in mind for me to do.
We’ve got a list of things that we, or rather Emily, wants to do — I’m mostly just along for the ride, having been to most of the big things before. It should be fun though. It’ll also be the first time being in Paris with a video camera that’s practical to be using all the time, so hopefully I’ll be able to come back with some good video (as well as the copious amounts of photos I’m, of course, going to be taking). As well as the cameras, I’ll also have my phone, meaning I’ll be able to, in theory at least, blog while I’m over there. Which I’m looking forward to. When I went in 2008, I used my phone to write notes, which I then compiled into one big blog when I got home, but being as it was a N95, typing all that I typed was very time consuming.
Any way, until next week!