I allowed myself a miniature sleep in, hoping I would start feeling better but I wasn’t so lucky. My cold persisted. I did the same deal with breakfast and lunch again and caught a bike back to the Louvre. The audio guide wasn’t included with my museum pass so I explored silently because I didn’t…

Today, my strategy was all about avoiding as many queues as possible so I was up at 7am. Another session of coughing and spluttering in the shower to try and shake the sickness from my body, after which I had breakfast and made lunch. Not bad to do all meals except dinner on EUR3! I…

Alarm went off at 7am and I was ready to get up. I’d been up in fits and starts all night because the room was way too warm so my throat was now completely dry. The Irishman’s remedy didn’t work. After coughing my guts up in the shower and dropping the key card to my…

Somewhere along the way I have picked up the superhuman capability to sleep wherever and whenever I need to. Today is the day those powers came out in force. I woke to my alarm still sleepy, but I’d had a good night’s sleep and I was feeling better, almost over my cold. Sabrina was the…

I had a rough night, but nothing compared to Sabrina. We were both feeling very poorly so no one had a great sleep. I was tossing and turning and was too cold so at some point during the night I picked up my air mattress and moved into the living room where the heating was…

We had a very, very late start to the day. I was up at 9am and ready to explore! After making pancakes and frying some eggs and a lot of faffing around, everyone was ready to leave at around 1pm. I would have to get used to this type of schedule! It was just over…

I was offended by the alarm this morning. Sabrina had to be at university for an 8am class so we were up early. When I eventually dragged my arse out of bed, I felt lethargic, sick with a sore throat and in a foul mood because of stupid dreams that had been interrupted. On our…

The alarms were set, they went off, but there was no action. We both got out of bed around 9am. Sabrina had missed her class and I had missed being at my first museum for the opening time of 10am. We had a slow start but thankfully the hangovers weren’t too bad. I left the…

You don’t want to know what time I got up this morning, but I’ll tell you, it was 4am. Why? Because my appointment at the Frankfurt US consulate was set for 7:30am and it was a two hour drive. I gave myself the extra hour because I didn’t want to risk anything. Despite the darkness…

After another breakfast of oats, raspberries and bananas, I chauffeured Sabrina to school where we battled to find a parking space. After much disagreement from my passenger, I wedged her little Renault Clio into a tiny space with just enough room to get out of the driver’s side, just like a European pro. I wished…