Rentre Avec Tes Pieds

*It actually stands for: Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens if you're wondering.

The SNCF went on strike today. Yes, a national railway strike with 4 days warning.

EU Artwork in Brussels. The French didn't like it. If they keep striking...........

What concerns me is 'Sympathy Strikes'. 'Strike action that is initiated by workers in one industry and supported by workers in a separate but related industry or profession'

And because France is essentially still a communist country, every industry is the same. So even though the RATP went on strike less than 3 weeks ago and brought Paris to a standstill, because SNCF are on strike today.......

So have waited at a rate of 1 metro in every 6, I arrived to get my bus at the end of the line and saw this:

Half of Paris waiting for my bus. And a bus every 45mins rather than every 5. I waited 30mins, nothing moved, so I turned around and came home!

SYMPATHY STRIKES: Like Ninjas on the Metro!

April Jewel!

April is always a good month. For starters, my birthday is the 25th. And this year I'm 21.

So far, this April has started off well; with fish-based japery!

Then I played 18 holes of golf. On the Champs-Elysees. In central Paris. 5 floors up. Crazy!

And found out something that I've wanted to know for ages. How fast can I hit a golf ball?

Answer: 265km/h. Or 166mph.

But antics do not end there! Oh no!

I have two 21st birthday parties to attend and I'm off to China in a week or so!

Why not combine three excellent things? Shanghai, Formula1 and my birthday!

So prepare for a blitzkrieg of colourful pictures in the coming weeks! And many more updates :-D

April Fool!

I have been, yes. Not enough updates.

The French don't understand comedy. Their funniest person for the last five-or-so years has been this man: Gad Elmaleh.

Only problem is, he's not funny.

So it would figure that the French don't understand April Fools day.

They think funny is sticking a fish on someone's back and then laughing. The rest of the world has this; but it's all year round and says 'kick me' or something to that effect.

So I added a bit of English based humour to the Poisson d'Avril. The best I could do given the lack of humour anywhere.

As the deemed cross-breed, the link between anglo and french relations, I am consulted for everything cultural.

So when the Indians came to me and said; 'what's poisson d'avril', I immediately said, it's when all of France eat fish on one day to help their fishermen.......

So with the help of my French colleagues, we all had fish for lunch, in 'solidarity of our fisherman friends'

Eventually I will tell Hardik and Co. that I may have bent the true somewhat. But not yet!