Victoria Louise K

Today Ian and I went on a tour of Le Marais which is right next to where we live in Paris. We've wandered around there a few times but never been on an official tour until now. It was so nice to find out more about our local area!

Le Marais is one of my favourite places in Paris, as Paris expanded, this area became to be considered part of Paris city center but initially it was considered to be on the outside. Therefore, it is home to a lot of different cultures, ethnicity's, religions, sexuality's; it's very diverse, open and accepting.
I have to admit that I didn't take photos of absolutely everything...

This is Place des Vosges, my favourite park in Paris!

After attempting Vlogmas during December, I've tended to recently shy away from taking my camera with me absolutely everywhere I go and instead have opted for taking quick snaps on my phone so today when I decided to upload my recent camera photos I was surprised to find that I only had about 2 new pictures on there...so cue a 'Life through my phone lately' post.


Last week I had the flu, I felt so ill and to make it all worse, Ian had gone home for 2 weeks so I was all on my own in Paris. As an attempt to feel better, I decided to go for a walk by the Eiffel Tower which really helped for about an hour but the next day I felt so much worse. Thankfully I'm feeling much better now! It's funny how you never appreciate your health until you're sick.


When I returned to work after my illness I had to prepare the kids their dinner and what better thing to cook than my old favourite; pancakes! Pancakes remind me so much of my childhood because my Nana always used to rustle them up in no time at all if we were feeling a bit peckish and it's something that I've definitely adopted from her. So, in my hour of need when I felt horrendous and had no idea what to cook, pancakes were my savior and the kids absolutely loved them, they smothered them in Emmental cheese, chevre (goats cheese) and ham.)

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When I'd fully recovered I went out to my favourite bar with a couple of friends, one of whom was set to move to Valencia the following day! Unfortunately my usual drink (mojito) had had a make-UNDER...served in a glass which was half the size and the price had been bumped up :(


When Ian returned to Paris, we went for a day trip to the Louvre, we both fell in love with the amazing architecture and beautiful art.


Here we are posing in front of the iconic Louvre pyramids before heading inside! ^.^


For our first meal together we went to a Greek restaurant and this is the most 'blog-post-worthy' photo I took. It's baklava, a Greek dessert made with wispy thin pastry and nuts, dripping in honey and sprinkled with pistachio.


After two weeks in England for Ian, it came as a bit of a shock to be back in the hustle and bustle of Paris city center so we escaped to Bois de Vincennes for a few hours and appreciated the peace and beauty.


Here's a picture we took during out walk, I'm so glad Ian's back in Paris, I missed him! I hope you enjoyed the post!

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During the Christmas holidays, Ian and I headed back home to England. First of all we went to the North of England, where my family live and straight away we headed for a much-missed country walk with Milo!
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On Saturday afternoon we went out for a nice stroll. As neither of us have our monthly unlimited navigo passes for the metro this month, as we're not staying in Paris for all of December, we tried not to venture too far. When you have a metro pass, you can go almost wherever you like, safe in the knowledge that you can just hop onto the metro whenever you've had enough and be home in more or less 20 minutes max!!
We headed to Le Marais; a place which I know is really popular but we've never actually explored it properly, we've tried but must have gone down the wrong road haha! Anyway, this time we followed the masses which obviously never fails. We found ourselves walking down the most cute, festive roads, laden with decadent Christmassy shops.



Including the most mouth-watering food!













With all the sweet treats around, we gave in and got white chocolate chip cookies ^.^



Then we popped into a cool comic book convention which we spotted. Although I'm not really a fan of comic books myself, we thought it would be worth a look!



There were artists drawing on the walls which I loved.



Then we came across the Pompidou center.





When we'd finally had enough of drooling over chocolates, cakes and cookies we began to head home and realized quite quickly that we'd walked a  lot further than we'd thought...