Paris Bucket List

  • buy a book from Shakespeare and Company bookshop
  • revisit Musée d'Orsay (last time I was drunk, don't ask)
  • see a film at la Pagode (I wonder if they have salty popcorn) they didn't :( BUT they supplied fleecy blankets
  • take a tour of les Catacombes
  • revisit the Louvre (last time I spent two hours looking for the Mona Lisa)
  • light a candle for my Nan's birthday at Sacre-Coeur Basilica
  • climb to the top of Notre Dame and pretend I'm a gargoyle
  • watch a ballet, preferably Sleeping Beauty, at Palais Garnier (keep dreaming) I've been inside, just not to a performance
  • go to the Chanel shop and drool over handbags
  • buy a watercolour of the Eiffel Tower (if I can find that man who was selling them...) It's oil but it counts, ok
  • watch a fashion show at Galeries Lafayette
  • stand where royal blood was spilled at Place de la Concorde
  • visit Marché aux Puces and buy something intriguing
  • go to la Conciergerie and have a butchers at Marie Antoinette's cell
  • attempt a Vélib ride along the Seine (should be...interesting) wasn't possible!
  • have a coffee in Café des Moulins, the one from Amelié (which you've all seen, I know)
  • actually try a macaroon
  • take a cheesy photo on Pont Neuf
  • visit Monet's gardens in Giverny and find inspiration to do...something I CAN'T THEY CLOSED ON 1ST NOVEMBER :(
  • 'woah, wow' at Palace of Versailles
  • have a fancy meal with my best friend for my 21st (we met in Paris, bezzer 4 lyf)