Just got back from Paris on Monday. What a nice city and definitely a welcome change from London. I don't know if it's an ingrained sense that's been instilled in me by our culture but there's an aire of sohpistication and worldliness about Paris that London doesn't just seem to have. I could probably attribute that difference though to a number of aspects one being language. Without language most of my view of Paris was through what I saw, consequently what I saw seemed much more sophisticated than London. Although that was a little different last night. My mum and I saw Spamalot at the Palace Theatre. The same theatre that Les Miserables played for almost two decades.

Spamalot, based on Monty Python and The Holy Grail, was a riot but didn't directly follow the plotline of the movie. There were a few interludes and new scenes that definitely added to the musical. I don't think I ever stopped laughing the entire show, except perhaps for intermission. Well anyway, why did London seem more sophisticated last night? Casino Royale. The world premiere was just down the street from the Palace and as we left the theatre we saw myriad people dressed to the nines in gowns and tuxedos for the event. Pretty neat. I sort of wished we could have gone but wouldn't have had any idea as to how to attend.

I sort of miss living in a city. The convenience of going around the corner and having a great restaurant at your doorstep. The ease of travelling around a city with great public transportation. It makes San Francisco seem a bit backwards when comparing it to London, at least from a transporation point of view. There's a tiny sliver of me that would love to move back to a big city, but then there's the other overwhelmingly large part of me that likes my semi-suburban life. I do like however the way some people dress in the city. I'll definitely make an effort to dress more smart as I like the look a lot more than my current engineer's wardrobe. I noticed many a people in France particularly were very well dressed, even casually, as compared to what I normally see.

My mum and I saw a great exhibition of Rembrandt and Hogarth at the Louvre. Rembrandt is an amazing artist, which I didn't actually realize until I saw some of his drawings up close. The ability with which he was able to capture human emotion with but the simplest of pencil strokes was amazing. Hogarth did some funny stuff, more politically and morally motivated than anything else, but he certainly brought British art into its own.

Well I could spend another hour typing, but my time is almost up, so I'll type more when I have the money and the time.

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