Berlin Bucket List

It's now 9 days until the Big B and I can't work out whether I'm prepared or not, which is always good...I think I have somewhere to live now, I'd say I was 90% sure, but I'm gonna stay true to my worrywart self and not reveal any details until my suitcase has firmly crossed the threshold of this supposed living arrangment- you know, just in case I've signed a contract with Nigerian princes, or the building falls down or something. So you'll have to wait for the juicy details.

I've also started a pile of stuff in the spare room, ready to be packed. So far, it consists of a pug calendar, some notepads and two tubes of toothpaste. I'm doing well.

I emailed my boss r.e what the hell do I wear to the office and it turns out it's just what you'd wear normally so that's a lot less to worry about. Though that doesn't mean I won't have a tantrum when I can't fit all of my shirts in the suitcase. Oh well.

So what's left now, is the Bucket List. Here's the updated Paris one, with some angry scrawl all over it, though I managed most of it and I'll try just as hard with this one!

• go to the Currywurst Museum because, obviously
• rave it up at Berghain
• watch a film at an open-air cinema and swing on some swings singing Sandy
• go on a daytrip to Potsdam (lots of palaces, a Chinese tea room and Alexandrowaka)
• shopping on Ku'damm I only bought one thing, but it counts okay
• eat at the unsicht-Bar (you eat completely in the dark)
• visit the Stasi Museum and Hohenschoenhausen Prison
• have a picnic in Viktoria Park, Kreuzberg
• buy some tat at Mauerpark flea market
• go to the top of the Fernsehturm and feel sick
• spend hours at Museum Island, mainly where the Egyptian stuff is
• revisit the East Side Gallery 
• visit the Reichstag Dome 
• v isit the Berliner Dom
• explore what's left of Anhalter Bahnhof
• pay respects at the graves of the Brothers Grimm
• look around the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedaechtnis Kirche I also got very angry with a tourist who was taking stupid 'arty' Instagram photos of the candles and I was like, er do you mind I kinda want to light one, to like, remember my dead relatives
• take part in the Paddy's Day parade-I bloody missed it!! I thought it was on Monday, but it was Sunday :(
• Charlottenberg Palace I've seen it, but haven't been in yet...

I went to Berlin with Lewis in 2012 and I knew straight away that I'd live there one day. Aside from being psychic, I'm bloody excited.

Paris Bucket List

Moving to Paris is not far away now, eek, so it's probably time to actually start thinking about it. I've been to Paris before, in high school, and saw most of the sights but I didn't really enjoy myself because of blah blah blah so this time I'm going to really try and see the city properly.

Me in Paris in 2008, bloody hell!

I've attempted a bucket list and hopefully I'll get at least 50% done!

• 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)

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