Toulouse/Paris

Hello everyone, 

I am currently on the plane on my way to Toulouse, France. Myself, Anna, Maddie, and Allie are going there for a few days, then bopping over to Paris for another few days. My backpack is stuffed to the BRIM, as usual, because these shitty airlines (Ryanair/, easy jet, etc) only allow one bag as a free carryon, so I only bring my backpack and let me tell you packing 5 days in my school backpack just isn’t cutting it these days. So everyone feel blessed that I even brought my computer. I know the fans have been missing my blog posts, and I figured this was a solid chunk of free time (aka on the plane) that I would have time to write things, so here we are.

I just wanted to let you all know that I got up to go to the bathroom, and have my wallet partially sticking out in the pocket of my jean jacket. I stood up to flush and my wallet fell into the toilet. I had to pull it out and now I am disgusted (if you were worried it was only pee). Hopefully things start looking up for this trip because if this is how it is going to go I am leaving tomorrow… pray for me.

Ok so we arrived in Toulouse late at night, and we were thrown right back into our French speaking. We got an uber to our airbnb, where we easily got into the apartment building, but then we didn’t know the apartment number. Eventually, we got into the smallest elevator ever and went to the 5th floor. It was dark, dingy, dirty, and super creepy. There was a dog next door barking super loud, and just had terrible vibes. It took us at least 5 minutes to unlock the door, and finally we got in. The apartment itself was nice, but the sink/shower were in one room, and the toilet was literally by itself in a closet down the hall. Very odd.

We woke up on Thursday and set off to explore Toulouse. It was a really cute little city! The colors of the buildings were very vibrant and fun. The girls of course wanted to go to every cathedral in sight, and I was wearing a crop top and ripped jeans so I felt very underdressed to be going into these places. Oh well! They were very beautiful anyway. Eventually we got down to what wanted to do the most, shopping, as well as eating, so we walked around and had ice cream and shopped. That evening, we saw the sunset over a river, then went out to dinner at a yummy Italian restaurant. After that, we went to a wine bar and tasted wine. It was a very interesting experience, with the wine being self serve in a vending machine type thing. 

On Friday morning, we got on a train to Paris! Very exciting. The train ride was 7 hours (big yikes), but I slept for over 5 hours so it flew by for me! haha. I was in a different train car than the girls, so when we got to the train station in Paris I couldn’t find them at first, and none of them had phone service, so obviously I started freaking out :) But alas we found each other and made it to our airbnb. This was a really cute one that was not creepy like the one in Toulouse! We got ready, because obviously we all looked disgusting after that long train ride, and set off to the Eiffel Tower. It was honestly a dream to be able to sit under the Eiffel Tower, drinking rose, and having a lil photoshoot. We actually met another girl who we found out goes to the same school that we are at in Edinburgh! She guessed that we had been to Scotland because I had my highland coo backpack, haha. 

So when we were done at the tower, we walked along the river seine to try to see some of the main sights of Paris. We stopped for crepes along the way, which were very yummy. We saw the Musee d’Orsay, and made it as far as the Louvre, where I had to pee SO bad. So we had to find a bathroom, which was more difficult than I was hoping. Then, we tried to walk to Notre Dame, but wound up stumbling across a riot (love that). There was a ton of SWAT type police around, so we realized that surviving the night was more important than seeing Notre Dame. So we had dinner and made it back to our airbnb, and rested up for our big next day.

 

On Saturday morning, the most exciting part of our trip commenced. We were going to Disneyland Paris! Of course it is like an hour away, so we wound up ubering there. It was SO much fun. Anna and I rode all the big rides, while Maddie and Allie did the smaller rides and watched parades. It was so cool to be at Disney in another country. It was not as magical as Disney World, but it was still really fun. I discovered a new love for thrilling rides, as I used to hate them but I was loving the adrenaline rush that I was getting on rides like Tower of Terror. 

 

After a long day, we went back to Paris, where we boarded a bus back to Toulouse. It was cheap, which is why we booked it, but a 9 hour overnight bus was just not ideal at all. I figured I would hate it, but I went along with it. Obviously I was able to sleep for the whole thing, but Anna only got around 2-3 hours of sleep which was a real bummer. We got back to Toulouse around 7am, and were literally all zombies. We considered just going to the airport at that point, even though our flight wasn’t until like 3:30 pm. I convinced them that we should explore for the day, so we took a little train thing around, and got some Belgian waffles. Once we arrived back in Edinburgh, we were all happy to be home and be able to take a shower, after all that traveling and no showering. We literally felt so disgusting (rightly so), and were so tired from a long, action packed weekend. In all, the trip was so fun and I am so happy that we were able to go! #stayclassyscotland