So this is Christmas...

"...and what have you done?"

OK, so I'm a little behind, but things have been so incredible busy!! We are now in London and this is the first real chance I've had to get on the net with a FAST connection, and the ability to upload photos on mass.


Two things that I have realised about the world when you travel without a laptop -

a) Find the cheapest internet cafe near you and stick with it! I've had computers that were deliberately slow to milk as much money out of you as possible, to just down right bargains like 1€ per HOUR with a great computer and a fast connection.


b) International keyboards SUCK! OK, so I never really thought that one through, most of the letters are the same, but they're in different places and the major dramas to find the very simple "@" key is such a hassle.


Anyway, I will post an update for Munich, Nuremberg, Rome, our day trip to Florence and last of all (and the best so far) Gay Pari in the next few days. Right now I'd just like to write a quick message about Christmas in Paris.


We had planned to give ourselves a Christmas present of going to a really nice restaurant in Paris, but as it has the whole trip, time just got away from us. So we choose to use the money we would have spent at the restaurant and go to "Cafe Fauchon" & "Les Galeries Lafayette" to pick up the necessary item to create a Christmas Eve Feast in an apartment that has no oven.


In Paris it is tradition to celebrate with a feast for Christmas Eve and then do all the presents, then head off to church.

So here is what we came up with, nuts & dried fruits, french roasted chicken with roasted potatoes, smoked salmon on picklets with creme fresh, crab meat quiche, mushrooms and bell peppers stuffed with goats cheese, sun dried tomatoes, garlic prawns, a couple of beautiful french cheeses, terrein, an assortment of french savory pastries, salads, baguettes, chocolates and stunning red wine from Bordeaux, oh and did I mention the bottle of Dom Perignon?

Needless to say it was a feast fit for royalty, or at least a couple of Queens! ;) I was of course concerned that there may not be enough food, but we were still eating it on boxing day when we left for London!

One thing I will say is that it's the first Christmas I have ever really looked forward to... EVER! I truly do not remember ever being so excited about it. How can you not be, it's Christmas in Paris! W00T!

On a down side I did miss the girls (being the cats at home), David's family (especially because it's his mums birthday, Happy Birthday Evelyn), and of course all of our beautiful friends, none of you are ever far from our hearts or minds.

So to all of you we wish you the very best in the year to come and will see you all very soon.

Cheers!

Happy New Year!

Please feel free to drop in and see the new photos from Prague, Munich, Nuremberg, Rome, Florence & Paris... http://www.flickr.com/photos/escapethematrix/

"Let the mind be enlarged to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind." - Francis Bacon