I tend to alternate between a pain au Chocolat or just a plain croissant. Then it's always a lemon meringue as my sweet treat.

I'm supporting local businesses, which is never a bad thing.

Luckily I'm visiting at the weekend (and I'll be a guest) so I can have as much as I'd like.

Gonna spend all my money at bakeries and patisseries. Can't wait!

Honestly don't even need to plan anything at this point for Paris. I know where I want to eat, I know where I want to shop and I know where I'll sleep.

Such an easy trip!

Plus it gives me the chance to practice French for free!

I booked for the free museum Sunday so really I'm saving money!

I still need to do that for my city, I keep saying that I can do local posts when I run out of ones from trips but it's not likely that'll happen anytime soon!

Of course since I don't know how long their teacher will be off, it means I can't book anything yet but the longer I'm there, the more I can save up.

When I worked full time, I liked my trips to be inspired by my classes so we'll see if anything inspires me this term.

I think I'm going to try and alternate between a post from this year, and a post from a previous trip, so that I can continue my goal of "Every country visited this year" while also making progress with all my draft posts.

I asked my bf if we could go to London for this, and he suggested we just spend the amount of money it would cost to do that to create our own version at home because "It would be way more cheese once you add in travel costs"

So now we're organising a cheese night.

It also has the added bonus of counting for both Mexico and Belize as part of my goal of having a post about every country I visited this year!

Not gonna lie, that was the main motivation as then it reduces the number of countries on my "Countries Visited" page with no posts.

... The worst part is I thought "hmm, they didn't give me anything for safety so I should try this" and then just used it the wrong way and determined it was of no use.

I'm just very glad I'm ambidextrous because I now can't use my right thumb without it hurting a lot.

My sister did immediately video call me and make me show her all the attachments and then tell me "that one is what you use to slice things to keep you safe".

In my defense it was labelled as "holder for food remnants" rather than "holder for slicing".