This time last year I was wandering the streets of Paris. As I've written a number of times, it was one place high on my bucket list that I wanted to tick off. I worked pretty hard to make it work - somehow! I didn't know at the time but my body was in the midst of being taken over by an autoimmune illness, perhaps the reason why I didn't see any of the magic city past 8pm. Apart from late night cocktails at Opera Bar at Crillon Hotel. In my experience, every stereotype of Paris was a myth - Paris was clean and beautiful, people were not uptight or snooty and if I made a little effort to speak French, they all made effort to speak English. The high end stores were a delight - I encountered the loveliest sales assistants from Chanel to Hermes to Maje and everything in between. And I still drool at the thought of the Raspberry Tart at Laduree.
You can read my posts from that trip HERE.
There were plenty of things left that I hadn't had a chance to see. I never made it to Versailles and most of the museums went unvisited.
Yesterday, unlike most Melbournians, I headed to work, leaving my phone in my car by mistake. When I finally got around check it late last night, I had a bunch of missed from a mobile number I didn't recognise and just as I picked it up the number rang again.
Rewind to last Saturday as B and I were enjoying breakfast and papers at our favourite cafe and I had sent my details, entering a competition thinking that surely nobody ever wins those things, let alone ME!?!?!
Well I got the shock of my life last night when the lovely Laura from the Melbourne French Festival - Paris to Provence called me to say I'D WON A TRIP TO FRANCE!
I have no idea how or when this will all take place (maybe for my next birthday???) and where do I want to go? Paris? A farmhouse or chateaux? Maybe I'll offer my house for a house swap and hope there's somebody that wants to spend time in Melbourne whilst I'm in France. MIND IS BLOWN!
Either way, I am so fortunate and so privileged to have won. Maybe my luck will continue today with a win at the races (Mount Athos?) and the $100mil lotto draw.. (I do promise to share and be generous!)
WOW!
You can read my posts from that trip HERE.
There were plenty of things left that I hadn't had a chance to see. I never made it to Versailles and most of the museums went unvisited.
Yesterday, unlike most Melbournians, I headed to work, leaving my phone in my car by mistake. When I finally got around check it late last night, I had a bunch of missed from a mobile number I didn't recognise and just as I picked it up the number rang again.
Rewind to last Saturday as B and I were enjoying breakfast and papers at our favourite cafe and I had sent my details, entering a competition thinking that surely nobody ever wins those things, let alone ME!?!?!
Well I got the shock of my life last night when the lovely Laura from the Melbourne French Festival - Paris to Provence called me to say I'D WON A TRIP TO FRANCE!
I have no idea how or when this will all take place (maybe for my next birthday???) and where do I want to go? Paris? A farmhouse or chateaux? Maybe I'll offer my house for a house swap and hope there's somebody that wants to spend time in Melbourne whilst I'm in France. MIND IS BLOWN!
Either way, I am so fortunate and so privileged to have won. Maybe my luck will continue today with a win at the races (Mount Athos?) and the $100mil lotto draw.. (I do promise to share and be generous!)
WOW!
