When let loose in a french pharmacie...

I feel like I bought the whole place. Skincare is going to pop up pretty often I'm sure, since I'm completely obsessive about it. So much so I made a special trip to city pharma (a popular discount pharmacy in paris, just down from paroisse saint germain des pres). I've been able to find la roche posay decently priced in a pharmacy in Aus so I snapped up some other french brands...

Filorga sleep and peel, and meso mask... both AMAZING
Caudalie beauty elixer, grape water and body lotion
Lierac 3 white flowers (fleur blanches) body cream and spray for mum
Avene ystheal eye cream, anti-redness cream, and serenage day cream also for mum
Bioderma crealine

The Filorga meso mask is by far my favourite. It turns your skin into something wonderful in as little as 10 minutes. I could of spent hours in city pharma. Lucky everything was labelled in french, because I'm pretty sure I would have spent even more!

Bonjour paris

I needed to find a cheap flight out of Denmark to Bahrain. I took advantage of cheaper flights due to three stopovers, which is how I got to see Paris. This led me to frantically booking a tiny little room in a 2 star hotel by Tour Eiffel while at the airport waiting to fly out of Copenhagen. It has turned out to be one of the best things I've ever done for myself...

Farvel Denmark

London I felt at home from the minute I arrived, the buzz, the millions of languages that surround you. It was a wonderful change of pace. Denmark I'm afraid I didn't leave with the same sense of attachment. People were genuinely friendly and helpful, but perhaps it was the famous weather that took over at the end of the day. Middle of summer and Denmark was incredibly cold and rainy so I really didn't get a chance to wonder and explore as I normally would. Though I do have great memories of a local dinner at a small house tucked away in the back of Christiania and playing fussball of all things with travelers from Brazil, Ukraine and Australia.

 Last sunset in Christiania, Copenhagen

Copenhagen

After the conference, I spent time in Copenhagen, which is an absolute fairy tale of a city in true homage to hans christian andersen. The weather wasn't on my side with sun rain on constant cycle... apparently the Danish call Australia "heldig" for lucky due to our blessed weather (Danish summer = Australian winter). I think Princess Mary has done a good wrap for Australians over there too. Denmark is a small country, but full of travelers. I had some amazing chats from people all over the place when cramming into door ways in bouts of rain, grabbing a coffee, waiting for the metro. It's a gateway into Scandanavia and so you have alot of people passing by.

A scarf is a scarf

Fantastic campaign outside of Copenhagen town hall.

Goodbye Aarhus

Last pics from my room in Aarhus. Across the street is this lovely threatre and church. My little room has served me well!

Stanstead to Heathrow to Copenhagen to Aarhus

I ran into a nightmare that is Ryanair to get to Denmark. Long story short, I had to rush back to Heathrow from Stansted Airport and rebook a flight with British Airways to Copenhagen. 36 hours from my room in London including a 5 hour trip standing on a packed train, I made it to the seaside town of Aarhus, where I'll be for a week for a conference. Was so exhausted after the commute that I completely slept in during my first class at Aarhus University, got lost and ended up wondering around and around in the residential zone. As lovely as it was!

Harrod's

To experience the underground I took the train to Knightsbridge to see none other than Harrod's. Quite a Khaliji playground... I just went straight for the food halls and picked up a little Harrod's lunch bag and a tin of short bread for mum.

 

 

Was too distracted to take pictures in the Harrod's food halls, but snapped a shot of the Egypt room

Tate modern, London

Spent a morning in Tate modern in my last hours in London.

 Picasso's weeping woman

 I then walked across the millennium bridge to St Paul's Cathedral, which took my breathe away.

The British Museum, London

Of all the touristy things I saw in London, the British Museum (which was right around the corner from where I was staying, at the University of London International hall) was my absolute favourite. I'm a huge history geek so I put up with the crowds and dedicated a decent amount of time there.