- Bike ride, friday nite until 5am and smoking huka...
Its such nice weather here, that I went on a bike ride in Paris for class. See, this class is a little, uh, different. Basically we do what we want, as long as it is in some way studying the city. So, my friend Julie proposed to ride bikes through the city to try to understand the difficulties of bike riding amongst the other traffic. If you have not ridden a bike in a city, I highly encourage it...but I guess its just so much cooler when you are riding down Saint Germain and past St. Severin. Lucky for me...
Friday nite I met up with a group in Paris up in Montmartre. We went into this Irish pub, O' Sullivans. The atmosphere was anything but an Irish Pub. It was more of a dance club the further back into the bar you travel. I really did not like the music too much. I was just kinda bouncing around and making fun of the piano and violin slash house techno remixes. It was entertaining to watch some friends try to dance on the bar...It wasnt entertaining to notice a group of 40 year old tourists (male and female) were watching my friends dance on the bar.
Saturday nite was beautiful. A large group went out to Paris for dinner. We ate at this mess hall place where there was barely enuf room to pull out your chair and sit. The food was traditional french, actually probably one of the better french meals that I have had, which was saucisson lyonnais (sausage with onions) and for dersert fondant au chocolat...mmm it was a fudge/ cake thing in a sea of custard. you have to try it, the next time your in France that is....so then we walked down the street to a huka bar. Now I've never down this before, I really do not smoke at all, but since it was fruit I decided I'll give it a try. We also drank the best mint tea ever. If you go to France, you must get the de menthe...its amazing!! well anyway so there were all of these strong aromas and tastes, strawberry, apple and mint, it was getting too much, so we called it quits after an hour and headed on out...well actually the people at the huka bar were literally trying to kick us out of the joint. and we were not even done yet! it was the first time EVER in France that I was rushed to leave...They said, there are other people waiting...but usually, in France that does not matter...you stay until as long as you want, you have to ask for the check in order to leave. So we were a bit upset after leaving this place...the night ended young with a walk along the Seine river...I thought about going for a swim, then I thought about the coldness and dirtiness...yeah or not.
shandar | 6:49 PM
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