I spent a couple of days last week in Paris, in the company of (among others) my new Canon EOS 10D digital camera. I'll post more about the camera later, but you can see some of the pictures here in the meantime.
Overall I had a really great time. My experiences with France in the past, have been limited to small towns and beach holidays as a kid. The architecture was constantly gorgeous and overwhelmingly photogenic, so much so that I had to stop pulling my camera out at every opportunity.
What really made the break however, was the friendliness of the Parisians we met while there. My school-boy French is embarrassingly bad, but almost everyone we met almost fell over themselves helping and welcoming us.
In particular La Dalea Restaurant & Bar and the Hotel Innova, both in Montparnasse, come highly recommended. Try the champagne cocktails or Entree's at the former and the way above short-break-2-star service and welcome and the latter.
I've visited 4% of the world according to World66, but where should I go next?
Slowly getting more and more excitied about my trip to Japan and the 1st International Moblogging conference.
I'll be updating moblogging.org with conference information and pictures on the day. Go there first for any moblogging updates.
I'm also taking part in a real-time 24 hour photo diary at media-diary.net, on the day before the conference (Fri 4th July). The site is currently only a mock-up, but have a look on the day for copious amounts of pictures of me lost and confused in Tokyo.
If I get the time, I'll upload some camera-phone and SLR pictures and blog here too. But otherwise things may be slow here for a bit.
(Before I go, I may also get time to re-write this page and improve the dire loading time too. But probably not)
