We are back!

Ola!

From Spain & Paris and we both have a new form of jet-lag!

Ever-since we are are back, both Alyce and myself have strangely been awake at 5-6am and we needed our 'afternoon nap' somewhere around the afternoon.

Spain was a great choice for holiday and has some of the most beautiful churches and modern art-deco buildings around. We actually spend about 14 days in total in the city and sent back (thank you Daniel & Yu Lueh) 2 cartons of stuff back by post!

I'm actually missing the great seafood we had there and the fresh produce and different types of crabs and shell fish, all live no less in the great country. The Spanish people are a very warm and friendly! The sun is more harsher than in singapore and traveling to different cities within Spain allows us to experience temperatures of 0-15 degrees.

Tapas are Spanish mini versions of various types of bite size food. According to our guide, they love food so much that a daily meal starts from 8-11am for breakfast followed by tea and lunch is normally served after 2pm and around 5pm tapas are popular. Dinner almost never starts before 8pm and normally ends at 11pm.

Paris is one eye opener, and almost everything is more expensive than singapore, esp food. Every meal for us starts around 20 euros and averages around 50. (gosh, we have to reconsider our loading fees for Paris). Parisians left me a deeper impression. Even without understand English (very seldom), everyone we met was very friendly to us, helping out on routes and directions to even ordering food.

They have this bond to hold train doors to strangers, very polite in their language. I finally understand, its not so much the place that made Paris romantic but rather the people.

Before my impression was everyone was clad in designer wear, smoking and drinking in cafes but in reality I think Asians are more branded in many ways. French food is great, esp the desserts they serve! However all the potions are small, and this comment was made by my dearest.

Paris is one international city like no other, i have not seen that many chinese in a western city. Asians are very visible wherever assortment we are at. Its very interesting fact that French Chinese like to converse in us in Chinese and their accent has a tint of mainland Chinese. Interesting right?

Before I gotten carried away, If you like to meet us, please call me from Monday as we have started to shoot from today and tomorrow. Please drop us a mail at lensman@singnet.com.sg as our main emails are undergoing some serious problems and I will have to sort them out the next few days.