I have made it to Paris!

I've arrived!

Mum helped me carry 3 bags all the way to Paris and together we eventually succeeded (in STIFLING heat, might I add) in finding the foyer where I'm staying! It is beautiful. I shall upload photos another day.

Once settled, we found a lovely restaurant which supplied us with a cup of jasmine tea and a lemonade and then I successfully purchased France's smallest padlock for my fridge (which, despite being told to get the smallest available is only just big enough to fit!) and took Mum back to the eurostar.

The train to get us there was PACKED and we became rather intimate with the people around us, which in this heat was NOT the most pleasant experience of my life. But we survived, I saw Mum off and then found the novel that had been advertised EVERYWHERE last time I came and bought it. It's called "La fille de papier", written by Guillaume Musso and so far it's very good though I suspect that it may in fact be a translation from America!

I then returned to find a french fireman climbing a ladder to the second floor of one of the houses round the corner and breaking the glass of the window - only for it to swing open and reveal that it was in fact already open! He climbed inside, as did another french fireman and the other french firemen stood and watched with the rest of us! No one seemed to know what had happened but they speculated that it was an elderly person caught by the heat. I asked why they didn't ask the firemen but was told that they never tell. I am ashamed to say I took them at their word and didn't ask but curiosity is EATING ME UP!

I then got back, got my internet sorted (hence the blog post!) and met three of the girls with whom I'll be living who all seem delightful and one of whom was my next door neighbour (who lives at number 22!!! *sigh*).

And now I'm off to bed to start work in the morning.

Thanks for all your prayers - keep 'em coming! xxx