France-tastic

So difficult to go back to work after a fantastic holiday in wintery Sweden (and briefly in Finland!), endless quantities of deliciously decadent Christmas food, as well as the Christmas, holiday, and new year's eve rations of booze!

There were long stints of sitting around on snug sofas, glögg (yummy Swedish spiced wine hot drink) in hand, Christmas carols on the radio, and the snow painting the world a beautiful shade of sparkly white outside, and what felt like even longer stints lying battered and bruised in various piles of snow after being thrown from a husky sled or after trying out the dangers of drinking and skiing.

A memorable highlight was a Northern Lights show, which we watched in -10 degree temperature, barefoot in the snow, dressed in only a towel, our wet hair freezing to little crunchy icicles around our ears. Magic. (The guy on the right is our German sauna companion whose girlfriend took the photo.)

After a flight like one would expect from budget airline Ryanair back to Paris, we celebrated Saint Sylvestre Algerian-style with John and Shari, in a Montmartre cous-cous restaurant, helped to the dance floor by three bottles of Algerian red and a male belly dancer! Not quite what I expected from New Years in Paris, but fantastic fun!

Hopefully I will soon find the little cord that connects my camera to my computer (which may or may not be in Sweden- the cord, not the computer) so that I can show you all some photos of our adventures!

Until then, I can only hope that everyone had as fantastic a break as we did though hopefully warmer and less bruised!

# posted by Jenny @ 14:37