Ten Little Chances to be Free (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-07-24 12:08 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-07-24 12:08 am
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General trip stuff.
Ever since $500 of my spending money got soaked and rendered un-exchangeable in a regrettable conditioner explosion in my suitcase, I have been veeery tightfisted with my money. I want to have some left over for Paris, see, so I've been even more of a spendthrift than I usually am at home. However, today I made the happy discovery that I have 100€ left for my last five days in Bordeaux--which means I finally get to do some serious eating out, whee! So tonight involved a wine bar and an apathetic Vietnamese dinner that was totally redeemed when I discovered that the place sold ginger candy. I heart ginger candy even if it makes my mouth explode. And tomorrow I am so totally going to have magret de canard, because it's apparently a regional specialty and I would feel bad if I didn't try it. (I am rather lucky in the regional-specialty department; canelés, another Bordeaux trademark, are made with milk, but most magret de canard recipes aren't and I would be mighty suspicious if any dairy products ended up in my wine.)
I also need to buy a new purse. Mine is falling apart, woe.
Photo excursions are going well enough. Saint-André is posted, I have a bunch of pictures of the Monument to the Girondins on my computer, and I'll probably go photograph the Jardin Public in the next couple days. I'm holding off on the Cimetière de la Chartreuse because my camera died right before I got to the tomb that has a GIANT STATUE OF THE GRIM REAPER on it. And there is no way I'm doing a photo post of the cemetery until I go back and get pictures of that.
It's kind of weird that I'm already preparing for Paris. Saturday...! (Okay, Sunday. Saturday is Montreuil-sur-Mer. *g*)
I also need to buy a new purse. Mine is falling apart, woe.
Photo excursions are going well enough. Saint-André is posted, I have a bunch of pictures of the Monument to the Girondins on my computer, and I'll probably go photograph the Jardin Public in the next couple days. I'm holding off on the Cimetière de la Chartreuse because my camera died right before I got to the tomb that has a GIANT STATUE OF THE GRIM REAPER on it. And there is no way I'm doing a photo post of the cemetery until I go back and get pictures of that.
It's kind of weird that I'm already preparing for Paris. Saturday...! (Okay, Sunday. Saturday is Montreuil-sur-Mer. *g*)