La Vie en Angela

I can only imagine the agony I have put you all through by not posting on here for well over a month. Well my friends, rejoice and sing, for I have returned to you. After having spent the better part of the past four months hunched over my computer editing a documentary, I needed a slight break from the keyboard. So I sprinkled some holy water around my desk, broke free from the confines of my office/sunporch, and dragged my shrunken, sleep deprived body into the warm light of day.


To start, the lovely Tracy and I took a little sojourn to Paris and London where we ate an ungodly amount of cheese and chocolates and took countless pictures of winding streets and pretty buildings. While I didn't have a complete grasp on the French language, I had the important phrases down: "We would like two red wines", "Where is the bathroom" and "I'd like two nutella crepes please". Although my fears of being scoffed at by aloof Parisians were never fully realized, I will think twice before trying to pay for two pastries with a twenty euro bill,again.


Thankfully my grasp of the english language served me better in London, except for the half hour we spent trying to figure out what, exactly, a waistcoat was. Our heads swelled with pride as we mastered the Tube system then proceeded to look down our noses at other wide-eyed tourists who nervously fished their maps from their fanny packs and hesitantly exited the trains.

A complete travel blog is still to come, but for now....a few lessons learned:

1. Never sit under the Eiffel Tower with an open map. It's a neon invitation for sleezy Parisian bikers (in head to toe leather)to attempt to seduce you with offers of directions while placing their hand uncomfortably high on your thigh.

2. Always order the banana nutella crepe with creme- it is truly the food of the gods

3. The byzantine staircase leading up to the Sacre Coeur is well worth the exhausting effort- Montmarte from the top is beautiful

4. Westminster Abbey chocolate bars will not save your soul from eternal hellfire and damnation.

5. Walking around downtown London repeating the phrase "look kids it's Big Ben...Parliment" will never stop being funny..


6. If you lose your way, always follow the large groups of Asian tourists with cameras, chances are they will be hitting a landmark at some point.

7. Watching drunk Americans and drunk Brits play a woefully disorganized game of cricket is a pleasant way to spend a Saturday afternoon in Hyde Park.