Swan Lake; Rugby; Snow; Zo

Watched a Swan Lake ballet (titled Le Lac des Cygnes in french) last night at the Opéra Bastille. The theater is a lot more modern than I had expected. Very much prefer Palais Garnier with its magnificent interior. Having been my first encounter with a full classic ballet, I find the overall pace of the performance slow. The first two acts were a lil boring but thankfully the pace picked up to give a grand ending. I enjoyed it nonetheless as I love ballets.

Last Saturday - Rugby test match between France & Australia at the Stade de France. The French got terribly thrashed by the Aussies with a score of 16-59! It became sort of embarrassing for the 80,000-strong home crowd.

26 Nov - The day we sighted the first snowfall in Paris. November! Can you imagine? We were shopping around Rue St. Honoré and the Goyard store assistant told us that the snow had come 3 weeks too early! Anyway, I'm not complaining because I ♥ snow. You should have seen how excited I was that day. Yes it's painfully cold, but looking at the white droplets really makes me feel happy I don't know why. It seems to have some magical effect on me. But of course I'm not wishing for heavy snow storms! Light ones will do :) As it is, I'm already looking to get a scraper to scrap those frost off my windscreen.

Friday night - Dinner with free-flow champagne! Ladies night though so too bad for the men. Hah. Drank till we were tipsy but I still managed to drive us home :p Food was quite good as well. We had a burger & a truffle penne as our mains. Love this new-found value-for-money restaurant especially since we got a discount by booking through www.toptable.com. Recommended! Not sure when this promotion ends though so you gotta hurry.

Name: Zo

Location: 13 Rue Montalivet, 75008 Paris

Expenditure: 30€pp for 3-course menu + free flow champagne for ladies on Friday (40€ if not booked via toptable.com)