Fr-amazing?

So France earned some cool points this week.

Apparantly the only thing harder than buying a History of Photography textbook in Paris is cheating and looking for one in written in English. After dedicating a whole afternoon to the cause and failing miserably, I decided to retreat to my old friend Amazon and grin and bear the postage prices. As I type the a into the URL bar to which my laptop immediately, and in a somewhat accussatory manner, responds with -mazon.co.uk, I am struck with a thought. A few clicks of the keyboard later and .co.uk is replaced with .fr, I hit enter and ta-dahh...Fr-Amazon! See ya, hefty postage and packaging prices, this company has a base in France as well! French Amazon not only has a Livres en Anglais et Etrangers section but an abundace of books on the History of Photography. With the cheapest edition added to my cart I also threw in a 1 centime copy of Mrs Dalloway and bon condition copy of Never Let Me Go. Being Fr-Amazon, the whole site was obviously in French and my patience with Google translate was worn in my first week here, so whether they arrive or not, I'll let you know.

After my successful (touch wood) purchases I thought I'd cross my fingers and give another favourite website of mine a try and boom, Fr-Ebay!

The only thing holding me back now is Zac Efron, Russell Brand and Johnny Depp...I can only choose one Rolling Stones cover poster for my new shroom.

In other life changing news, I hit the Soldes in Go Sport and got me some new running gear. Choosing to pack plimsols over trainers in light of my limited luggage weight did nothing for my calves. Plus the only thing worse than being seen as a female running in Paris is being seen running like Pheobe through Paris. So new cheapo trainers it was. Mens trainers naturally. What would a French woman want with such things.