in May we decided to visit our friend Marie-Laure Bessigneul, a crazy French girl from France's beautiful capital PARIS. I got to know Marie-Laure as a backpacker when we shared a flat together in Sydney in 2005. I hadn't seen her since so you can imagine we had LOTS to talk about after 5 years! Michael had both been to Paris before so we didn't feel obliged to tick off all the major sights...instead, we had a rather cozy stay in Paris. We stayed at Marie-Laure's great aunts flat in the centre of town, went on long strolls through town, sat in LOTS of cafes and visited a few unusual places...like the catacombes of Paris - where the bones of 6 MILLION Parisians have been stacked up to make room for more bodies on the cemeteries while the Plague was raging. That was certainly a very creepy experience! We also caught up with a friend of Michael's who is doing what Michael's doing this year - discovering the culture of his French wife! We had a great time in Paris - see for yourselves:
The Bessigneul Family - a typical French family?! I don't think so!
French parking - could it get any tighter?!
French shoes...no seriously, if you go to Paris, they all walk around like that!
Marie-Laure and I and some metal construction everyone took photos of...
Got to live up to the Parisian clichee!
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