visits...

This year, there are a few people visiting me during the course. Jayne will of course be in Paris a few times (at the beginning, maybe for my birthday and at the end of the course) and Henk will visit for a short weekend in November. 

In the picture is Brynjar, Cristina and Jayne. (visit NL of B.& C.)

Cristina, from Spain, will also be in the Intermediate class again. We were in Basic Cuisine together last year and had lots of fun.

Brynjar, Cris' man will probably be visiting C. a few times, flying in from Iceland.

And maybe Dr.Frank will pay me a short visit to have a look at the 'Centre Pompidou'. Visiting the CP has been on his wish list for quite a while and this is a good opportunity to finally see it. We'll see.

And Henk, here during our last trip to the underground bone collection of Paris, will be back.

I'm looking forward to the visits! not too many - I'll probably be too tired to entertain them anyway...

Skype - free calls during the LCB course

Occasionally, like last year during the course, I will be on-line / on the phone. My Skype account is still active. If you want to call me, for free, my Skype name is : sjoerdservaas

(Re)activate your Skype account now or download it through the Skype website.
easy-peasy!
Talk to you all soon !
That is, when I'm not too tired...

Paris apartment booked

Well, it certainly took some time to find a good apartment. I wanted to try something new and looked around in the 6th arrondisement. To cut a long story short - this area is way too expensive....

I was looking for a 70-80 sqm apartment with a good kitchen and preferably an extra bedroom. I tried many agency's and got many quotes, but $£@%, they are expensive!

So, back to my old place in the 15th. Great.

And this time I could bypass the agency; I went straight to the owner to book the apartment. It's only a 20 minutes walk to the school, or I can take a (free) bike - see also http://www.en.velib.paris.fr/ (The first half hour bike rental is free.)

My very nice apartment has got THE best view of the Eiffel tower !

Yes, yes, it's that long thin thing in the middle of the picture - that's my 'perfect' view of the Eiffel Tower.

Isn't it great.....

We'll be traveling on the Thalys train to Paris on 10th November and we'll be going back to Amsterdam on Saturday 19th December.

It's about time I dust off my old LCB 'basic cuisine' binder and start practicing again!

I'll be back soon,

Sjoerd