Hi all, I emailed this to my friend Sandra, got carried away so have posted it to you all as well! Sorry! Had a Gorgonzola, bacon and something I forget, crepe for you yesterday. Was it only yesterday?  We are out and about from 9.30am to 11.30pm and am knackered!  But oh so happy! Eiffel tower, Arc de Triomphe and shopped the Champs Élysées today. We have packed so much in! Incredible! Wish I still smoked(not really) but the French make it look so cool! Hard to get away from it as I think every 2nd person smokes! Thank you for having a drink for me.  We were having lunch on the Champs Élysées today at 2.30, normal time for lunch! The sun doesn't set until about 10.30 so our body clocks are out completely! Totally in love with Montmartre! Such an amazing 'village'.  We have walked the length and breadth of it plus everywhere else!  Julie (oldest friend from NZ) is like you, the perfect travel partner.  No plans, let's just see what happens and where this street takes us....magic! Our apartment is on the 3rd floor and a Creole Restaurant (among many more) is at ground level opposite.  I'm listening to the most amazing music from them, at the moment.  Our French double windows  are open as we are trying to dry our washing, so all the street noise is here and I'm sharing these people's lives for a couple of minutes as they walk past, and they don't know it!  Exactly as I imagined and wanted my Parisienne life to be! I can see people living in their apartment opposite and they can see me!  I'm sitting here, windows wide open, no bugs, thinking what's that noise? It's raining! Magic! Jules is asleep, serves her right for waking me at 6.30 when we'd set the alarm for 8am!  It's only 9.05pm now!!    One of the highlights of our morning was being targeted by the gypsy wedding ring scam! They 'discover' a wedding band on the ground in front of you, hello is this yours? No? Well you have it as I don't wear jewellery! They then appear a minute later and ask for money to buy a coke or coffee as 'you've had such good luck!'. No, I said and gave back the ring ad we moved on down towards the Eiffel Tower. A 100m or so we noticed a guy peeing against the wall on the Seine, another mature man walked towards us and tapped his nose and eyebrow and said 'attention' in his French accent. We did, and behold! Another scammer! Ha ha, we are seasoned now! Then we continued walking to the tower, my cash now buried in my bra!Saw a gypsy making a lot out of gullible people Lots of love Lindylou xx