Certified crazy

Eu não existo longe de você
E a solidão, é o meu pior castigo
Eu conto as horas pra poder te ver
Mas o relógio tá de mal comigo…

Por quê? Por quê?

What do you do when you feel very very tired, very sleepy and have some important task at hand? Especially when the known solution – Caffeine doesn’t work?

1 Ltr of juice and coffee later, it still doesn’t help much. I got to find new alternatives to stay awake. The jaagrans have started, and exams are nowhere in sight.

Paris – check
Eiffel Tower – check
Arc de Triomphe – check
Champes Elysees – check
Musee d’Orsay – uncheck
Musee de Louvre – uncheck
Hagen Das triple scoop ice cream – check
Gare du Nord – check
Onion Uttappam in Paris – check
Rosgullas from Paris – check
Sunday morning mass at Notre Dame – check (in French though)
Brunch at a French Patisserie – check

Paris is Grand! And charmingly beautiful in its own way. It is very much like Mumbai though – people are always in a hurry, well most of the times.

It was an early winter in Paris – too cold, but I ain’t complaining. Maple leaves everywhere. With less than 30 hours on hand, I tried to feel Paris. A lot more to be seen, a lot more to be heard. May be, some other time, some other season.

Did I mention that most of the tourist places checked above were done on a cold, windy evening, without a proper overcoat, in a saree?

Crazy.

Last friday we decided to beat the boredom of not having anything to do, with a trip to nearby Antibes. It was fun learning the bus routes (the wrong way )

Antibes is a quaint little town and we thoroughly enjoyed passing around, smelling good food, posing with BMW motorbikes, running down races and practicing some horrible, horrible French. All in all, a fun weekend Some pictures are here.

Now, off to Paris tomorrow morning. Hopefully, some good touristy pictures coming soon