Jonny Barnes

I’ve just checked in with Swarm

I’ve just checked in with Swarm

No debut hat-trick, but I’ll take a 4-0 win 😃

So glad the @1password extension has started working on @FirefoxNightly again 😊

Debut hat-trick? #mufc

I really like the new @premierleague kit font

It’s match day, come on #mufc

Oh how I missed the @premierleague

Days ten and eleven of our #honeymoon.

We started off Friday with another trip to the Louvre. We looked at the medieval foundations to begin. A small exhibition in the museum, but I still learned a lot. I never knew the Louvre started off as a castle to defend Paris. Before becoming a palace for the royals.

Then a stroll around some more sculptures. Including two my parents have bronze busts of sat proudly in their front room.

A trip on the batobus that was too sunny for me and we popped into the Musée d’Orsay again. We shared an excellent salad in the cafe before going to the Impressionist art gallery on the top floor we couldn’t make last time. Some wonderful Monet paintings in there.

Back to the hotel for a rest and another trip to Mian Fam for dinner. Simply great tasting food 🤤.

Saturday was our last proper day in France. We went out to Rouen for a little day trip. A lovely old town in Normandy. If it reminded me of anywhere, it was Chester. An old town with newly developed suburbs.

After Rouen we stayed in the hotel for dinner. I went out on one last walk, this time effectively five stops down the metro line, looking for some ham and cheese to make sandwiches with.

Today was just a flying day and we’re now back in England.

Day nine of our #honeymoon.

Day eight was Disneyland, I’ll write that up later, it was a very busy day. We didn’t get back to the hotel till 1am!

That left us quite tired for Thursday, so we had a big lie in. We got breakfast from the local patisserie again and ate it in the hotel room. We had croissants followed by a chocolate eclair for myself, chouquettes for Sophie.

For the afternoon we headed out to the Champs Elysées. The only shop we actually shopped in was Levi’s, and we didn’t even get jeans 😮

We tried to go to a ramen bar a friend recommended to us, but it had closed for nearly all of August. Is that a French thing or a Paris thing?

So we went to an Oriental deli called Tafa on the same road. It was very tasty, we got several plates of nibbles.

We then went back to the hotel for a rest, and ate dinner in. I headed out to the kiosk round the corner and got us some crepes for dessert.