Paroissien’s in Paris

David and Fred receiving their trophies…..                    Running around the Butte Chaumont…
David, Fred and Lazar…

Dinner at the apartment…..                                         The cheer squad for David and Fred… - 2 degrees!

 

The last week has been great fun with David and Andrew here – we’ve been to the top of the
Eiffel Tower, walked all around Montmartre, visited the Musee D’Orsay and Musee Marmottan and of course burnt the credit card with some shopping.     

 

But the highlight had to be David joining his French friend Fred in an 8 km race around the Butte Chaumont, to the east of Paris – a fundraiser for Amnesty International.      The temperature was 2 degrees when they set off at 10am and by the time everyone had finished, the snow was falling – very lightly but nevertheless snow – how amazing.

And of course Fred and David came first – and both received the biggest silver cups – see photo – and strict instructions to take it back to Melbourne for the Melb. Uni Athletics Club which is where they met – my packing is a challenge, let along with a cup!!!

And another highlight was having dinner with Fred and his wife Mathilde and their children Lazar and Sybil in their Paris apartment – they had spent a year in Melbourne so great fun swapping stories of living in each other’s countries.   

 

We had an early family Christmas Dinner and now Andrew is back in Cornwall getting ready to travel with Beth to Morzine in the French Alps where they will work in a chalet for the winter season – he tells me they don’t get paid much but they do have a lot of fun snowboarding etc. etc.     Then they hope to go to South America for the summer – what a life.

 

David is at present seeing friends in Amsterdam and London and will be back in time for Christmas with us.

So, December is just upon us and Christmas is in full swing  -  more next blog…

Barb