Elsien's Traveblogue

I was really tired and had to catch up on emails and bits of OU research, so I didn't get going until late and sat in the Chao Ba, where they have nice coffee, nice waiters, comfortable seats and free WiFi until mid-day, did my food shopping for the weekend in the Monop' (like Tesco Metro, but Monoprix). Dropped the stuff off and went off to the Academie Francaise on the Left Bank, more or less opposite the Louvre, where I'd been told they do tours the first Saturday of the month at 3pm. Not so, they were firmly closed, but they did seem to have the builders in.
So, I walked back to St Michel, watched the rock'n roll there, well, a group of enthusiastic teenagers playing wind and percussion instruments, quite cheerful, catchy and musical. Also, blowing giant bubbles out of soapy buckets seems to be popular this season; I've seen three of them already. Had a coffee and walked around for a bit, but not a lot as it's quite rainy at the moment. Home to catch up on OU reading followed by a beer and a spot of tourist watching this evening at the Place des Abbesses. Normal evening entertainment includes cooking, eating, reading, studying, writing, watching the news on TF1 – other programmes are way too awful to watch, even if it's good for my French! You should see their version of 'I'm a Celebrity': Z-list Celebrities (like the UK ones I've never heard of any of them) on a Farm in Africa. The UK version is vastly superior, but that's not difficult, I think.