Daisy’s leaving on a jet plane

Daisy is leaving us (and her beloved Bold and the Beautiful) behind and heading off on a big adventure overseas with Woolif.
Stay tuned for travel updates.



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Daisy

And flying beeswax. Woolif was able to get buy one, get one free using his points. Besides, I am too old and too cranky to fly so for in eco. I am seriously dangerous without sleep. Itt’s possible that I would kill someone. I go into a deranged sleep zombia.
If you don’t get mad, I will photograph some of our on flight meals etc. Feel free to say, “Oh daisy, shut the fffff up”.
PS I have watched Aircrash Investigations every day, sometimes twice daily, for the past few months and feel so knowledgeable on planes, plane maintenance, and how to deal with an emergency or in the event of a crash. First job, make sure the pilots have been drug tested for cocaine and that they have both passed their pilot exams. 😄😄😄

Daisy

Last time we went to France, Woolif left his hand luggage in the back of the taxi. In it was $13 000 cash, our passports, and our complete itinerary with receipts of deposits paid.
😣😣😣😣 It was a scary day. I have a picture of it that I can post later.
The Sri Lankan driver could have gone home and put a deposit on a house.
Luckily, we got it back at 5 .00 but it was an all day wait. And it was Sunday. We had no sim cards so couldn’t use phones to get help.

Daisy

Von. I jinxed myself with all that beautiful Bunbury sun. It’s going to be cold and rainy in Paris all week. So much for the northern hemisphere.

Von

But you’ll be in Paris!

Rainy weather may keep the crowds down, so you can be at the front of the queue wherever you go.

Daisy

This is a ttv first……

Bobi

Have you been told not to drink anything made with water (tea, coffee, covfefe) on the plane? Apparently, the cleaning schedule for those things is unknown (scary face).
Have a lovely trip and a lovely time.

Daisy

Thanks, Bobi. I have survived many trips to India where I once saw a waiter wipe the blade of my butter knife on his trousers before setting it on my table because he noticed that it was dirty. 😂

Daisy

On board. Marinated salmon. Not bad for raw fish.
And I am still alive this morning.

Daisy

Sweets. These were the first leg to Singapore.
Sorry but Juz asked for the food.

Bolders

I love these photos – have a great trip Daisy

Daisy

It’s not for the food or royal treatment. It’s because last night I slept on a mattress, on about a metre width of bed, with my feet stretched out. AND the bed was (is, I am still in it) flat. That is the selling point for a 14-15 hour flight. But that’s a photo I won’t post here.
Instead I will post the first leg to Singapore. Almost flat, full body length.
Woolif said I was sleeping like Harry (the dog, not the prince).
BTW, Harry and Maggie have been having a ball and keeping a journal. They are with my daughter who actually asked could she mind them. They are with their cousins (kids) and cousin dog, Albie, a border Collie. Yesterday Maggie rolled in poop, something I have never let her do. They chased a chook. But their attempt to sleep on the lounge were foiled. They have their own beds. They have had mini stays at my daughter’s before and are loved by the whole family, except Kenny who doesn’t get off the computer. 😁 Fans of the Middle will know Kenny.

Again, pic is the non sleeping leg.

Smythe

Have a very safe and fun trip.

Sara

Have a wonderful, safe, happy trip
Xx

Daisy

Woolif standing in front of our apartment block.

Daisy

Damn. Woolif now standing in front of out apartment block.
Thanks you well wishers. I hope I can entertain you.

Daisy

The view out of our front window.

Daisy

Don’t be impressed. We have just been growling about the substandard apartment inside. It’s the only apartment we have ever not been happy with. The owners are slack on the maintenance. We will call them tomorrow.

Anyhow, enough about that. So Woolif and I head out to a café. A lot of places use very small tables and smoodge the customers in real close. So Woolif and I are almost sitting on top of two young English speaking ladies, one of who was self absorbed and holding court. Her conversation turned to the birth of her child. She was elbow to elbow with Woolif, talking about waters breaking, birth canals and delivery complications. It was not really want either of us, Woolif or I, wanted to know.

Daisy

It took Woolif and me all day and about 20 kms of walking to try and find a telephone company that sold sim cards. At last when we felt that we were sooooo close, the guy at the last place finally informs us, “Non, at zee tabac”. Sheeesh. Where do they sell their tobacco then?
Anyhow people, when in France, save yourself a lot of hassell and pick up your sim card at the fag shop. No, I don’t mean at Rue de Bad Boys. Yes, there is a street called Rue de Bad Boys in the gay quarter in Le Marais. Don’t be put off by the thought of bad boys everywhere. Le Marais is the best, hippest area. In a good way.
Woolif is now zonked. We ended our walk with me buying two jumpers.

Daisy

A street haircut.

Daisy

Still in Paris. The lunch menu at Les deux Maggots.
It’s not as bad as it sounds.

Daisy

Scallops tonight.

Brussellsprout

Are you sure? They could be mushrooms.

Daisy

Sure. Beautifully caramelized scallops. 😋

Brussellsprout

Couldn’t help myself with a masterchef joke (idiot contestant made mushrooms that looked exactly like scallops!). These look lovely.

Von

Hi, Daisy. The scallops look nice, but I have an urge to take a cloth and wipe the edge of that dish :).

Daisy

Ha ha. Cracked pepper. In that case you would have really wanted to rearrange the serviettes and cutlery. The waiter did them all on an angle. I had the urge to straighten them but you don’t tangle with French waiters….even in a Spanish restaurant.

Daisy

I would love to post videos because the one I took inside the restaurant had Woolif look up like a startled rabbit.
If you want to see my fb, you may ask Juz for it. She won’t give it out to weirdos.

Windsong

“She won’t give it out to weirdos.”

That does, of course, rule most of us out.

Windsong

I knew it!

daisy

Okay. No flashers, heavy breathers (that wld exclude Woolif who I slap at night and complain, “Stop breathing”, no catfishers (no one who wants to marry me). And no one who wants me to put 260 000 dollars in a Cornflakes packet and send it.

daisy

Consider yourselves screened. 🤪🤪🤪

Bobi

No Nigerian princes? I make exceptions for royalty.

Zhee

You guys really have bad luck with our weather so far. I am glad it is rather cool because it means that my co workers stink less. And people using public transport.

daisy

Oh it’s been okay. The rain has only been intermittent and not when we were going out. It hasn’t been cold.Just cool.

Zhee

I am sure weather will be fine soon with lots of sun. It is June after all anyway.
I am hitting the train tracks myself on Monday. Hopefully with no big incidents as it is always an adventure to get into Paris at the moment. Especially during the week ends, lots of train lines don’t run at all due to maintenance.

Daisy

It’s lovely now.

Daisy

Woolif’s cod. 😂

Daisy

Don’t worry. I’m fine. I just need to not walk 20kms a day.

Daisy

That’s true. But Woolif gets excited when travelling. He gets in “The Zone” and for the first two days I think we must have covered about 20kms a day, minimum. Me in tow. Day 1. Was tracking down a place to buy a sim card. After all the walking, it turned out to be any tabacco shop (different from our last trip). Day2. I should have queried his excursion. It turned out to be a good stretch also.
I think the teacher in Woolif, makes him want to head out on daily school excursions. I usually just tag along. Woolif might just be on the spectrum.
No really. Or has a tiny touch of dementia. And is possibly deaf.

Windsong

It looks beautiful and old.

The city, I mean. Eek!

Daisy

😂 It is. 😂

Daisy

Sore foot or no sore foot, we managed to go out for paella. Imagine the chorizo with lemon and the mussels were smokey.

Daisy

No room to swing a cat, but the location is perfect.

Zhee

That’s Ile de France for you. Spacious apartments are extremely rare. Especially in Paris and Versailles. And they are horrendously overpriced. I got used to it over the years though. 😉 And if it is cheap, you get a cave that is falling apart.

In case you are planning a trip to Versailles:
https://www.latabledu11.com/ – There is also a bistro, which is a bit cheaper, but also really yummy. Really yummy! https://www.lebistrotdu11.com/
I went there with some friends a few weeks ago. It is a bit pricey, but worth every cent in my opinion. We had been to the bistro before and then decided to go all fancy. 😀

daisy

We aren’t on the island. We are in Le Marais, in Rue du Francois Marron. It looks like it was once part of the monastery that is still there. We can see it from our bed. We are between the Seine and Rue de Rivoli.

Zhee

Sorry, I was a bit misleading. Ile de France here includes all the closest departments surrounding Paris, including Yvelines, where I live. 🙂 As it is close to Paris, I need about 30 minutes to Paris, rents are high and houses are like for millionaires.

Btw, if you want a bit of shopping, you can head to Les Halles or La Defense. You might find affordable and nice stores en masse. 🙂

Daisy

Doing my journal. In my pjs.

Daisy

The pen is mightier 😂😂😂

Daisy

Do you like my rose coloured glasses? 😂

Daisy

For those interested in fashion….oh dear. The only things missing are the bonnet and wagon train. The “fashion” this year are unbelievably terrible.

Windsong

They’re very … I want to be charitable and say “retro”, as opposed to, “terrible”.

Daisy

They are so retro that Laura Ingles mum would have worn them. Seriously, there are even worse than this.
And the rule about joggers has been ditched. Joggers are in at the moment, but they aren’t our sensible/I need to walk 15kms of cobbled street type. They are a bit fancy.

Bobi

I’m a bit startled.
Surely this is a costume shop.
My memory of European fashion is that the wimmin were extremely elegante.

Daisy

4 years ago, the clothes were great. Not the high end. That was for people with loads of money but no fashion sense, but the ordinary boutiques were quite nice. Now I can’t tell which are the vintage stores and which are supposed to be a bice boutique. I did manage to find 2 nice jumpers. Here’s a dusky blue mohair.

Daisy

The croissants here are fantastic. I often have one for breakfast with a café crème.

Daisy

Woolif’s dessert tonight. We ended up sharing. Oh my God.

Windsong

That looks amazing.

Daisy

It waaaas, Windsong. And I hadn’t wanted dessert. Luckily the waiter brought me a spoon aussie.

Now for my midnight snack.

Daisy

And don’t think I didn’t polish it off. Inside….chocolate cake, chocolate mousse, raspberry sauce.

Windsong

Oh Daisy, that just isn’t fair.

Bobi

Just yum, yum and more yum.
This is the reason I cant have nice things.

brain dead dave

Won’t see stuff like that on Ma$terchef.

Note the absence of ice cream.

Zhee

Daisy, if you or Woolif are tea drinkers… not sure you heard of it, we have a great French brand here called Kusmi. Bit pricier, but they have great flavours.

Daisy

Thanks, Zhee. I’m an English Breakfast girl myself. Even though for 6 years we sold fancy teas, like blossoming teas and other specialty teas.

And I have been loving the café crèmes.

Zhee

They actually should have an English Breakfast Tea. 🙂

Daisy

Dave, Windsong; I found something for you. It’s the Frenchman’s summer outfit.

Look at Woolif admiring it. 😆

Windsong

That doesn’t look too bad. I actually quite like the coat.

daisy

You’d fit right in Paris, Windsong.

daisy

Arthur, blaspheming. Taking the Lord’s name in vain.

daisy

Please God, can I have a bmx?

Daisy

Watching netflix atm. Murder Mystery with Adam Sandler, who I don’t normally love, but haven’t we all been caught out in, “I shouldn’t have worn this shirt”?. Funny.

daisy

Er…. maybe only at the start.

daisy

Today.

daisy

Veal last night. It came with a bowl of tasty veggies.

daisy

Musée d’Orsay today.

daisy

Oh my God! Whyyyeee. Woolif booked us in to see some show “that has singing”. Why do people want to “enjoy cultural experiences” by doing things that they wouldn’t like at home?
I took an extra ‘pain killer’ because I felt that my bitching was going to be warranted, and obligingly went along.
Here was the audience (photo) …..
I figured it wasn’t going to be a long show because none of our bladders would last long, and because it would soon be time for our naps.
It was a lot Gershwin piano, which is nice but most of the songs were about dying and seeing Jesus…or cheeses (the French love cheese).
My revenge was teasing Woolif afterwards by singing the songs in my head.
“I want to die easy”. 😂😂😂
Really it wasn’t terrible, but operatic musical theatre is even less to Woolif’staste than mine.

daisy

….and by posting this….(although I do actually think this is a cute pic).
We’ve had Millenials day out. Now it’s Geriatric’s day out. Woolif looks like he’s going to ask the nurse if he’s had lunch yet. 😂😂😂

daisy

Last day in Paris. It’s been lovely, as it was last time. We diddn’t go to the Louvre but we will return their when we get back to Paris at the end of our trip.
Today Woolif and I go collect our leased vehicle so that we can depart Paris early tomorrow. The traffic system in Paris is very higgelty piggelty. Not quite like India or China, but odd and we expect to be beeped. It’s what they do if anyone hesitates, or stops. Beep. Beep.
Tomorrow we drive to Colmar.

daisy

Mr and Mrs McGoo driving through Paris. Now I onow why we hear the ambulance every 10 minutes. The motor cyclists are are dangerous menace. They lawlessly and unpredictably weave in and out. The cars are crazy too but the mptor bikes are the worst. In the town centre the electric scooters are also every where and another thing to dodge. It used to be a funny novelty but there are rental skooters now which has bumped up the number of skooter riders. They go pretty fast and you can’t hear them coming.

Zhee

You can be grateful leaving Paris this week end, my weather forecast here tells me 39°C. UGHHHHHHH! -.-

And yes, driving in Paris is kinda suicide. The peripherique is awful and should be avoided at all costs. 😉 But it gets better. The closer you get to Germany, the more German the drivers become. 😛
Maybe, if you find the time, head from Colmar to Freiburg. It is a very lovely city:
https://visit.freiburg.de/en

Are you also heading to Strasbourg?

daisy

The driving in Paris has been part of the fun. This morning, as we were walking to the Metro, we saw a blind man crossing a crosswalk. As is customary, a driver had stopped on the crosswalk (because cars had stopped ahead of him). Furiously the blind man began thrashing the car soundly with his cane. When a lady tried to help him, he shrugged her away, and continued beating the the car and shouting abuse. I guess you could call that a blind rage.

It’s just such a weird system of lights and crosswalks that leaves traffic either stuck in the middle of an intersection, blocking other traffic, or stuck on a crosswalk.

daisy

To answer your question, we are going to stay in Colmar for a week, then Strassbourg for a week. While in Colmar and Strassbourg, we will take day trips around the Alsace. We have been before and really like it. After that, we head to Prague via Regensberg.

daisy

If Paris is hot, Colmar will be too. Last time we were here there was a heat wave in Paris and Colmar. Lucky thing I love the heat, and came north just for it. ☀️☀️☀️

Zhee

You mean Regensburg in Bavaria? It is quite nice there. 🙂

Regarding Alsace, it might be a bit of a drive, but Germany’s Tuscany is basically very close to Alsace. 🙂 They have great vineyards and fantastic wine and food. I think you could call it the German Barossa Valley as well. 😛
https://www.germanwines.de/tourism/wine-growing-regions/pfalz/

My hometown is very cute and historic (one of the oldest cities in Germany, being over 2000 years old and featuring some museums and the oldest Romanesque church in Europe, Dom zu Speyer). From there you can easily also head to Schwetzingen with a nice chateau and then Heidelberg. Mostly known for being a famous university city, but also being a tourist favourite due to the castle.
Speyer is about an hour and a half drive away from Strasbourg, Heidelberg about two hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speyer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruchsal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwetzingen_Palace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe (quick drive from Strasbourg)

This is my home area, so I can only say that it is worth a visit. 🙂

Daisy

Thanks, Zhee.
I am not sure how much of Germany we will see. At this stage, we are playing it by ear, although I am sure Woolif will be keen to plan daytrips. We have had a lot of fun driving through the Alsace, saying the names of all the towns out loud in our best high school German accents, though.

daisy

Woolif is scanning your info now. He’s the tour guide. No doubt he’ll follow up on those.

daisy

Speyer sure looks nice.

Zhee

Nooooo! My answer to Daisy got eaten up. Too many links I guess. Juz, if you read this, can you maybe fish the posting out of the spam please?

Windsong

I think I’m speaking for everyone here when I say, “… wow.”

Zhee

Okayyyyy! I think it was the use of too many links. 😉
Thanks Juz! <3