Travelling the world, cathy style!

I copied some photos over from my sim card to my usb drive. Unfortunately it got full, and the photos didn't get copied in order and i didn't realise that photos between 752 and 943 didn't get copied over before i deleted them. Damn!!!

It's also very annoying typing on a french keyboard. The punctuation, A, Q, W, M and Z keys are in different spots but otherwise its the same.

Currently in Fours. It's a little town near nevers in burgandy, france. I'm staying with Nico, Leia's boyfriend. Huge thanks to Nico & his family for letting me stay. It's so beautiful here, picturesqe. I woke up this morning and everything was covered in frost, and the landscape was fantastic. There are little cute cottages everywhere all covered in white. And its not even snowing!! Looks like something out of a painting. We walked past the town church today, you can hear it ring every hour on the hour from Nico's house. Its such a cute little town.

They've also been feeding me all this fantastic food!!! There is a type of cured ham that is similar to proscuito, Wonderful cheeses from all over france, fantastic bread!! Roast beef from the local special cows, and tonight we had crepes for dinner! yuuummmmmmmmmmm!!! I swear any weight i lost in spain has come right back plus more.

Leia arrived this morning. She got to heathrow last night but due to the fog there are no short haul flights. She was stuck there for 7 hours and was finally able to catch a bus to paris that took 8 hours. Damn!!! By the time she got to paris she'd missed the last train out to nevers and had to stay overnight and get one first thing in the morning. She Finally got here after 3 days of travelling. Poor thing, she's exhausted.

We went to Nico's Uncles farm today. They have cows, horses, and a duck! We got to see a calf that was only half an hour old. It was pretty darn hairy and big! Can't imagine giving birth to something like that!!!

Leia & myself were constantly amazed at the frost and frozen puddles. Nico & his sister (fanny) must've thought we were crazy, or stupid or both! hehe

They have three beautiful dogs, velour(velvet), bluebird, and titun. They are soooo cute! I could watch them and play with them all day!

Congrats to everyone who passed their part III exams!!! I finally got a chance to see the pass list, and looks like alot of people passed this semester, well alot of the people i know passed.

YAY i passed!!! happy dance!!!

okay, so i checked myself into this cheap hostel for one night to save money. it sucks. lots and lots of reasons why it sucks, but right now the main reason it sucks is because the internet will not allow me to open adobe pdf and check the exam results. Crystal, Bow, and Kiat all say i've passed. but i just want to see the results for myself!!!! Damn it! I can't quite grasp the idea that i don't have to study GI ever again.

Lisa's in london somewhere. Her flight got cancelled cause of fog in heathrow. But i think she gets to catch the train instead. She'll be Celebrating tonight probably. She passed too. yay!

I forgot to mention, lisa had her luggage lost at barcelona airport for 3 days. It sucked alot.

went to the catacombes today. Very freaky. First time i've seen any dead people. And there was heaps!!! In case any of you didn't know, it's a place underneath paris where they put all of their dead people a couple of hundred years ago. They had the plague and the dead were just being chucked in a big pit. It started to get full cause so many people were dying, and they were worried about the spread of diseases and stuff so they dug these catacombes instead and took 2 years to transport all the dead down there. Must've been a shit job! Lugging dead decaying people across paris in the dead of the night and shoving them into an underground storage place. They even arranged the bones into cool patterns and stuff. I went on my own, which was a pretty stupid idea, and got freaked out walking down the tunnel. Luckily i found a nice kiwi couple who were happy to hang out with me. Being in an underground cememtery alone is pretty scary. Especially when the lighting is pretty dim and it's just you and tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of skeletons. I"ll try to upload a photo when i can. Most of these places don't give you access to the actual computer hardware thingie.

Congrats to anyone else who passed. All i know of so far are Bow, Sarah, Mo, Laybutt, Nina... Not sure who else.

$1.50 euro for 10mins? what the ?!?!?!

typing quickly

paris is cool. lourve is massive. bought nice boots. food is good, been going by lisa's paris food book. Streets are fun, could possibly live up to most beautiful city in the world, the notre dame is okay, prefer the sac-recur. not sure how to spell that.
shops are good, french people are okay, not too snobby.

feel like an absolute dag, everyone is so well dressed. Wish i had nice coat and better clothes.

Going to the eiffel tower tonight. They like cats in this city. Beautiful views of stuff at night. Not as dirty as i've been told, and seen lots of chocolate shops, fromagaries, and bakeries. Could just eat all day here, if it wasn't so fucking expensive. Scuse my french. why do people say that??

Bye

quick post. Internet is expensive here.
I'm lost.
My phone died, and i seem to have misplaced my australia-europe adaptor. wE BOOKED A room at MIJE, but changed it yesterday cuase it was too expensive. Can't find lisa, phone died.. apparently her friends aren't at the mije hotel where she said they would be.
i'm wondering around paris with my backpack.. damn it's heavy! Don't have lisa's mobile number and my sim card won't work on a paris mobile (tried it with a nice person on the street)

HOpe lisa's not freaking out too much.

I´m pretty sure you guys are sick of my long tedious posts. So here´s a short one.

Barcelona rocks!!!
Found some food markets which have loads of fresh fruit, meat, and seafood.
La Rumbla has lots and lots of different buskers. Every 10m therés a different one.
The clubs are open very late, we finally got kicked out of one at 5am. Although the guy to girl ratio is very very high, and it makes us girls a bit scared. That and the fact that spanish guys don´t seem to understand ´no´. They just come up to you and maul you! It´s scary, a polite ´no´ won´t work, neither will running away, pushing them... nothing! They just don´t get it!!!! GET OFF ME!!!!!!!

we also met two actuaries. What are the chances?!?!?!?!