Sunny September: Lyon

Right now, I’m living the quiet life! I have very limited access to internet, I’m surrounded by mountains and I go see my family and my childhood friends. I try to keep busy but I’m afraid to say I’m getting fat! Not good…

After Paris, I went to Lyon for a few days. That city has a different feel to it, smaller and maybe less exciting. It’s nice though, especially at this time of the year, when you get the Indian summer.

-One of the 2 rivers flowing in Lyon: Le Rhone:

-Training at Opera, where all the big dogs have smoked some marble floor:

-“Only Lyon”, best slogan ever:

On the way to my village, we stopped at Chambery to see the “4 Sans Cul” Statue. The legend says Hannibal and his army (comprising a few elephants) came through Chambery to attack the Romans:

Now I am spending a few days in my village. I have loads of people to see and I’m not doing much exercising, it’s a tough life.

This is what it looks like around here:

-Mountain village:

-Mountain village without the village:

-Cheeky lake down the road:

Finally, we had a stroll around Annecy. British people love that place I’m telling you, they always mention it to me! It’s also where the recent murder of the English family took place but that is just a one off; it’s normally pretty safe there.

-The Alpine Venice:

-More mountains:

Annecy marks the end of our “Sunny September” chapter. I have some new adventures around the corner so keep an eye out, it should get pretty exciting!

Sunny September: Paris part 2

For this last post about Paris, I have quite a lot of pictures. I'm afraid it's going to be pretty random...



Let us begin: I went to Chateau de Versailles, residence of Louis XIV and that. It's the equivalent of the Windsor Castle, with more French people!
-I know a good gate when I see one:
 
 -Galerie des Glaces, classic:

-If there are gangta gardens, here they are:
 
So that's it for French history...



What else happened...? Well, THIS:
-Graff everywhere:



Whoever owns that van must love cruising around town.



-You got this everywhere:

 But on a scooter, it's next level:




-If you go to France and you don't see a demonstration, go back!


-Best street name ever:



-Training at 104. It's a bit like Trocadero in London but with more light...



We even went out, do not worry, we didn't come home too late.
-Slam jam featuring Orel:
 
 -Funk night at the Big Bang Gang, killa:




Paris was great, maybe one day I will live there... Next up, Lyon City!

Sunny September: Paris part 1

Bonjour.
Yes, I am in Paris. It's good here, nice and warm. People are happy because it's sunny! I'm getting my French back on track too, I was struggling the 1st day but it's all good now!



Firstly, to come from London, I took a megabus! The whole trip was 8 hours and it was pretty good: quiet, free wifi in the UK, nice ferry and mega cheap (only £16). If like me, you have load of time on your hands and you want to visit Paris on budget, I recommend it!
Ferry nice:

 Goodbye UK:




So on my 1st day here, I did the longest walk known to man! I've been to Paris before so I've seen quite a lot but it was good to refresh my memory!
Here is the plan of my walk, home-made, I'm very proud of it!!!


I walked for literally 8 hours and I was so tired I took the tube home in the end. This is what I saw (aka Paris for beginners):
-La Bastille, informally known as Revolution Square:

 -Place des Vosges, where you can't afford anything:

 -Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, special thanks to the builders for wrecking the picture!

 -La Seine, only French river whose water you can drink, it cleanses your whole stomach (true story):

 -Illuminati Central + tourist central = le Louvre

 -Whoever lives in this building is laughing!

 -Blackpool Tower cheap imitation:

 -Arc de Triomphe: just a nice roundabout really!

 -Sacre Coeur and all my new friends, we had so much fun!

And then, I took the tube home!



I have some more entries for Paris, it will be interesting! Be on the lookout!

Sunny September: London part 3

They say truth hurts. Well this one is going to be painful! I don't want to blog about London. I used to hate London (now I quite like it). But I'm there so much and I'm sure most of my 5 regular readers know it quite well too. I don't feel motivated at all!



To add some excitement, let's talk about London's surroundings. One place in particular: Windsor! So when I was on tour with the Olympic Torch Relay, we could either go to the Castle or to Legoland, being sophisticated and cultured people, we decided for the later! I redeemed myself by actually paying to learn some history and culture. Unfortunately, this time the Queen wasn't at the Windsor Castle (you know because they had the Union Jack on top of the Tower, when she's there, they have the Royal Standard flag).
-This is the outside, so far so good:

-The main tower with the Union Jack proudly floating above:

-Statue and apartments:

-Gardens of the Queen Eden II:

-St George Chapel, featuring the cheeky Unicorn:

In other news, we also checked the Paralympic Marathon. I can proudly say that I saw both the London 2012 marathons (what a weak claim to fame!). The guys were struggling going uphill but it gave me more time to take pictures haha:

-Last but not least: the fireworks from the Thames Festival. This summer has been particularly good for fireworks...

Romantic as always!


That's it for London. Next stop, a very exotic place: Paris. I used to speak French ok, I hope it comes back!

Sunny September: London part 2

London is eating my money!



I could finish here but that would be "poor behavior"... Let me show you what we've been up to lately.
I bought a travel card so I don't walk as much as I want to but I still manage to get a few shots of weird stuff. Like these floating trees on Warren Street:




We had more shows with Brassroots, so much fun! This one was exceptionally good mainly thanks to the location:
-Tower Bridge in the sun:

-Yours truly trying his best:

-The main band itself, they are so hyped!!!!




Last saturday, the best thing happened. It was so crazy and surreal it is hard to explain! After some circus shows at Piccadilly, they had one final piece on the square involving angels playing with feathers. It started pretty slow but within 20 minutes they had massive machines blowing white stuff all over the place. It was like New Year's Eve with snow and smiles, in August! I hope the pictures can speak for themselves:



Cheeky video to make it interactive:


If you weren't there that night, you missed out!!

Sunny September: London part1

Hello dear 5 regular readers, I have been in London for a week already and I am about to embark on quite an exciting journey. So it's time to blog!!!



You know me, I try to be honest. Well.... I have been lazy lately, not much dancing, not much blogging. In London it takes at least 1 hour to do anything, that's the truth right there! So I come home late and I do nothing.



Now that I have a bit of a day off, I'll show you what London looks like on this sunny September:
-Oxford Street sunset, tourist central!

 -I had never been there but it's nice: Temple, suit central!

 -We're here do some work too, Brassroot teaming up with ATD for the best shows ever, hype central!

 -Official sponsor: Eastpak central!

 -Also had to check out the Paralympics in Stratford: East central!

That's it for now. This is only the beginning, we're just warming up. Be on the look out for more news!





ps: I haven't eaten there but that has got to be the name for a restaurant ever: rainbow central!