Blog 3: Shopping Zones, Amelie's Cafe and a gimp suit

Woke up this morning and went downstairs to see yet more poverty.. wait hang on, they actually looked a bit illegal. There was a family pulling out clothes from an old rusted charity clothes bin. The mother pulled out some binliners and handed them to her child (About 2 yrs old) who needed some help from his father opening it, but once done, they all started passing things to each other... It was sad to see the poor kids being involved in such a mess. Surely a family of four can get help from the government to at least have a home and some clothes? But that is why I thought, hmmm maybe they arent in Paris by normal procedures....

Anyway, today was already being too normal, so we are wandering along when Kate spots someone hanging their whole double bed and pillows out the window. ahhh :) Thanks for being so random Paris, I feel so at home now. Look >>>

Im sure there's logical reasons why people hang their double beds out of windows like they wet the bed and wanted to dry it maybe?

The other night was amazing cause when I got in from work, Kate made me a real Shepard Pie with runner beans. 1st time we have eaten at home. Very good results given the situations of our weird oven/cooker thing!

Kates a girl of many talents, she can bake a cake out of anything lying about and it will be good.

<<< These little buggers are the hire bikes!

Stick a Euro or 2 in the slot and you can ride them around all day long for free ! :O

We ordered a couple of Goat cheese bagettes from the big lady down the road somehow, but I wanted the steak and cheese with Capri Sun. Silly girl didnt understand my accents and I spoke with a French one too.

If you like the shopping, then you love 'Pyramides' zone. It has everything you could think to buy there!

Now I made this little clip here for the biggest shopper in the world whose one of the smallest people I know. Lisa....

After shopping with no money, we went on a mission to find "The 2 Windmills" Cafe from the best film ever made of all time "Amelie"...

It took many attempts of asking in boulangerie's and magasin de fruits to actually find the place, but it was soooo worth it! Walking into the cafe was like being inside the film and the atmosphere was crazy thick. Was also the 1st time Id seen so many French people looking happy in one room (Other than Pigalle)

There were characters everyhwere in this place that you could draw. One old lady sat next to us with a dog on her lap, paws on the table n stuff? Posh or what!?

Amelie Cafe was amazing... Then we found a Jo Bodle's lamp! Check it >>

Very Moulin Rouge aye!

Ate the best selection of raw fish ever at a Sushi bar down the road and dropped the slimey poisson in the soy sauce a bit too high splattering it all over my white top. Its ok though, it looked designer like this.

The wine here however WAS vinegar we think... but then it was only 2 Euros for quite a large vase full.

Since we were soooo close to the district again and practically RAN through Pigalle last time, we thought.. ok I thought we should go back through the streets again to see all the pretty red lights. Found it quite entertaining seeing the old seedy men hanging around near the entrances of the clubs wearing trenchcoats and slyly peaking over the top to see if anyone was looking before they crept in for a peep show...

Kate nudged me at one point along the walk and I nearly fell through some curtains which is lucky really because on the other side was the gay spartacus room, whatever that was.

We did check out a sex shop in the end to see why everyone was making such a fuss about the place. The 1st dvd on display nearly made me vomit as it involved chains and old ladies, so we moved quickly through the dvd section, straight into... toys...