Paris & London

I'm currently flying home after my 2-week Europe trip meeting heaps of awesome people. Like I mentioned in last weeks post, ideally I plan to write a dedicated "Europe Trip" post alongside these weekly updates, but last week we did 4 nights in Paris and 4 nights in London!

I didn't know what to expect out of Paris, and I kinda thought I'd not fuck with London - but in reality, both my partner and I really fucked with London, and kinda really didn't enjoy Paris (Other than hanging out with a friend!¹).

Paris was kinda rough initially, insanely busy and unwelcoming. It wasn't until we went a bit out of the city that we actually could enjoy how pretty everything was, and I do mean that. Paris was Beautiful - but it was just to packed and had way too many cars driving around. We met up with a local friend a few times in the city, and it was great spending time with her and yapping. Kinda stopped my partner and I from going crazy - and she helped us enjoy the city a lot more 💖.

We didn't do too many touristy things, but we did see a few things - you really can't appreciate the scale of all these monuments & buildings until you're up close and in person with them! Our friend recommended we visit when the locals are on holiday, since we ended up visiting when theres tourists and locals - which made things super packed...

After our short Paris trip we went through to London, we caught the Eurostar in and the whole process felt kinda tacked on and hacky lol. I had to scan my passport at 3 different terminals in the same room to board the train, all doing different things haha. Brexit moment I guess.

London was great because we got to spend most of the time meeting and hanging out with friends in pubs² - with a few days just spent chilling in parks! Sadly I am allergic to the UK... I've never really had allergies before but I basically was on a rotation of different meds to stop me feeling like death in and about the city, not sure if it was damp or pollen. But something was fucking me up bad !!

I've gone through my camera and I've gotten some great pictures so I'm keen to post them all a bit later in the week when I get time for the full blown holiday post!