To do list

Firstly have to say a quick shout out to Tokyo - after experiencing a powerful 8.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked the capital a 33ft tsunami has devastated northern coastal areas. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone there. These natural disasters are becoming far too frequent.

Anyway aside from less depressing topics this blog is a to do list, a list of all the things I have left to do in Paris before Summer. Here goes...

1. Unrelated to Paris but related to the process of how life altering this experience has been. Read Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

2. Go and visit the Vel d'Hiv memorial and all the plaques around Paris which commemorate what happened on that awful day in July 1942.

3. Visit the Pantheon. DONE

4. Find someone to put a padlock on the Pont des Arts bridge with, even if it's a friend. Romantic stuff peeps got to be done. DONE, WITH STACEY, APRIL'11

5. Go to Musee d'Orsay again.

6. Finish the Louvre (over several days)

7. Climb the Eiffel Tower (night & day) DAY - DONE

8. Take my parents to have falafel on Rue de Rosiers

9. Visit all the Paris parks

10. Buy a Longchamp bag and become truly Parisien DONE

11. Go the the Sex museum and Moulin Rouge

12. Learn how to make croissants from a French baker

13. Visit the Chateau de Versailles

14. Learn how to skateboard from Noah TRIED, FAILED

15. Go to a real French market for bread/wine/cheese

16. Go to a flea market

17. Take a river cruise down the Seine

There are many more but right now I am off into Paris as I am FINALLY feeling human again so I will update it when I can think of more.