27th sept

This is what I wrote yesterday, but couldn't post because of stupid McDo. Luckily it's working today though. Good old chicken mc nuggets!
Well, I went to the market this morning and bought loads and loads! And I still didn't spend any more than 10 euros! I got a mass load of grapes for 1 euro, so I'm trying out a grape and vine peach smoothie. It's good! Vine peaches are lovely, both cheaper and sweeter than normal peaches, with a gorgeous dark red colour inside. I also got some tiny artichokes, so I'll have to remember to look up a recipe when I'm in McDo later. I also got some cheap cabbages and peppers. Not sure what I'll do with those yet. I got myself a treat too; fougasse with olives, mmmm! Fougasse is this lovely soft bread which is served warm with caramelised onions in cafe rouge and it's one of the best things on the menu! I was considering a roti chicken, but they're kind of expensive, 1 place was selling them for 11 euros for a small one, and another for 7 euros. I remember when they were a novelty and we used to be really excited to get one from carrefour calais. We spent ages searching for a stock cube to get the same flavour back in england, and now they're everywhere.

I've got myself a loyalty card now for my local shop 'casino' which actually sounds a bit funny/strange in english (I got a loyalty card from my local casino...) But it's like a nectar card, so I can use it in places like monoprix, galeries lafayette and even on sncf, so when I get a train somewhere, I can get points on it! I also got a loyalty card from a sushi restaurant! How cool is that! It was las week when me, louise and some of her friends went to a sushi reataurant near where she lives. I've lost count of japanese restaurants now, I think its 11 or 12 though!

Me and louise went on a tour of old Lyon yesterday because it was free and we didn't know much about the place. We still don't know loads, because there were at least 40 people there who'd come along for the free tour and so it was difficult to hear. Still, there was a guy who had this oval bag which he used as a shelf to keep his cat on. Yes, you read that right, he had a cat on his shelf-bag. It was amazing! And we learned that there was a square in old lyon which has pretty much every building style that exists in Lyon, roman, gothic, 15th century, 18th century. So that was quite cool. We also learned that there's loads of... tunnels? alleys? That look closed, but the public can use them, and they were built to keep goods out of the rain and to ease the transport of goodsso they could be taken up stairs rather than up a hill. You can go through one of these tunnels, and up stairs and end up somewhere completley different.

We got hungry during the tour, so we decided to leave it and get some food. We got a baguette and I got a lyonnaise specialty; 'escargot aux pralines' this big pink sticky pastry which was sooo sugary! Delicious! Then we went for a wander because louise needed new shoes, so she ended up buying clothes! We also found another segway rental place, from only 15 euros for 30 minutes! Robin, get yourself down here! There was loads going on in town, too! We saw a massive rollerblading thing, freestyle salom I think it was called, but it was amazing! I'm lending loads of my dvds, cos everyone's in the same boat as me, as in having seen all the dvds they bought with them several thousand times now. I'm glad I'm one of those people who can see something a thousand times though!

McDonalds really sucks. Although its open every day from 9 till 1 am which is really unusual for france, the internet is not working at my ‘local’ mc do, so after lugging my laptop all the way here I don’t feel pressed to find somewhere else. Theres more in town, but I’d have to get the metro, and they’re the only ones I know. Apart from the resto opposite which never seems open, and is really expensive, theres the uni, which is obviously closed on a Sunday. Bloody France! I don’t feel like doing anything else for the rest of the day now, not that there is anything to do. I’ll just get lunch at one of the cafes at uni tomorrow after dragging my laptop AND uni stuff in. Bloody hastle! And I’m not going to ANOTHER McDo and ordering MORE of their crappy food. Once a day is quite enough thankyou!
Happy Birthday Robin!