Today we were due to receive visitors who were going to stay with us for the next few days. My PhD supervisor (and fellow ICIS'2008 attendee) and her husband were due to arrive around 10:30. So Sandy and I spent a lazy morning inside reading and waiting for them to arrive. Of course, we hadn't provided all the necessary instructions and had them waiting on the sidewalk for a bit before getting inside....more...
After our big night out at Lasserre Saturday morning saw us walking down to the Musee D'Orsay....more...
Friday night we were booked in to eat at Lasserre. A two-star Michelin restaurant of the haute cuisine style....more...
After our flight we spent the afternoon of the 12th wondering around Paris, seeing what we could see. The plane was mostly to look at the Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower....more...
After much shopping (mostly winter clothes - much needed and used already) and a bit of time in the QClub - time to get back on a plane for the 13+ hours to London. The upgrade to Business didn't come through but the nice check in lady from Brisbane had put us in the next best thing. A row of seats behind a partition that meant we had enough room to our legs out straight. Very nice. Both Sandy and I slept a reasonable amount for this type of thing. Watched a number of movies and basically waited for the flight to be over....more...
For the purposes of informing my family and keeping a record for my faulty memory I am going to blog, where possible, Sandy's and my trip to Paris for ICIS'2008. This first installment is from the start of the travel in Struck Oil through to the QANTAS Club in Singapore Airport....more...