Friday, January 6, 2012

What to remember - Paris, France

Paris, France
1. Eiffel Tower lights up at dusk
2. Opera Bastille is very inexpensive on Thursdays
3. Eat bread and cheese the entire time
4. Rue de Moufftard
5. Sacre Cour at night on the weekends - take wine
6. You can get bottles of wine for less than 2 euro but it won't be worth it the next day
7. On again off again bus tour is an easy way to get around the first time you're in the city
8. Musee d'Orsee
9. Louvre is almost as good from the outside as it is from the inside
10. Versaille is an entire day - don't miss Marie Antoinettes fake village its the best part
11. Drink coffee
12. Pain au chocolate
13. Walk
14. Rent a bike
15. Stop for wine as often as you want
16. Smoke a cigerette
17. Sit by le Seine in the sunlight or the moonlight
18. Relax, wander - the river makes it easy to never really get lost
19. Eat fondue
20. The first day of summer is a wild party throughout the entire city

What to remember - London, England

London, England
1. Chelsea
2. The Tube
3. South Kensington station
4. Mind the gap
5. Don't hang out at Picadilly
6. Do hang out on the East Side
7. Black Springs Press
8. Robert from Scotland and Gretchen from Conneticutt
9. Late night walks
10. Museums are free
11. Double Decker busses
12. Taxis are expensive and enormous
13. Sneaking into that ridiculous club on King's Rd.
14. Manresa Road, London 020 7808 9200
15. The Tube
16. Traffic going the wrong direction
17. Almost getting hit by busses
18. Signs on the ground telling stupid Americans not to get hit by the oncoming busses
19. Baked beans with breakfast
20. Bacon Buddies
21. French fries with everything
22. Beer
23. Rain
24. Dark by 4pm
25. Going to Scotland
26. Taking the train to Paris
27. Tesco
28. Bikram
29. Rubbish Bin
30. "issues" is not used as an alternative to "problems"
31. The grocer refusing to give me my bags until I told them who I was going to vote for in the next election
32. Escaping from Notting Hill and going to McDonald's
33. Markets
34. Bar Italia in Soho
35. Instant Coffee
36. Indian Food
37. Quid
38. Henry J. Beans and Beer Gardens
39. Guilds
40. Day drinking
41. Summer is a different world

What to remember - Toledo, OH

Toledo, OH
1. Bowsher
2. 4385 Beverly Dr.
3. The river spot
4. Driving
5. Amanda's first house and sleeping in the backyard
6. Amanda's second house and sleeping in the hammock
7. Laura's basement
8. Laura's basement doors
9. Running laps around Rachel's basement
10. Mi Hacienda
11. Early morning breakfasts
12. French class
13. Chandra's house
14. Jeff Veitch's basement
15. TCS Park
16. OLPH Festival
17. Records
18. Allied
19. VHS tapes
20. Skipping class
21. University of Toledo
22. Simon and Garfunkel
23. Maxwell's Brew
24. Sidecut Park
25. Swan Creek Metro
26. Cross Country
27. Scott's house
28. Caiti's car
29. Haunted bridge
30. Big Boy
31. House Parties
32. The Lair
33. Doc Watson's
34. The Faux Paus
35. Swings
36. River Road
37. The Zoo
38. Lickety Split
39. Murphy's Place Jazz Cafe
40. The Movie Theatre
41. Nick
42. Grandma's House for dinner
43. Church
44. Sparky
45. Ringo
46. Brock's house
47. Railroad tracks
48. Sneaking onto Bowsher
49. Climbing on the roof of the school - "hey...do you know dinardo?"
50. Parks
51. Cigarettes
52. Coffee
53. Aimless walks
54. Aimless conversations
55. Waiting
56. Childhood
57. Bike rides
58. Holidays
59. Downtown
60. Manhatten's
61. The Mudhen's
62. Fricker's
63. Tony Packos
64. The East Side
65. The Drive in
66. The South Side
67. The West Side
68. Sneaking onto the Mudhen's field
69. Sneaking into the Mudhen's games
70. Getting lost downtown
71. Franklin Park
72. Southwyck
73. Laura getting fired from Dillards
74. Rachel and Amanda working at the coffee house
75. Boys
76. Friends
77. Summers
78. Michael's
79. Super Duper Shakes

What to remember - Charleston, SC

Charleston, South Carolina
1. Speed Humps
2. Outside brunch on New Years Day
3. Pool parties on Easter with mini-bottles in the eggs
4. Collard Greens
5. Visors being appropriate
6. Seersucker pants
7. Tattooed Moose Duck Sandwich and Sausage Gravy Fries
8. Black eyed peas and collards greens for good luck on New Years Day
9. Men is pastels
10. Men in short shorts
11. Back porches
12. Green pools
13. Beach parties
14. Vodka Sodas...everything sodas
15. Y'all
16. Diddy
17. Charleston City Paper
18. Farmer's Market
19. Restaurant Week
20. Fast and French Fondu Thursdays
21. Dolphin's at Morris Lighthouse
22. The duck at Poogan's Porch
23. Zia Taquiero enchiladas
24. Art Walk on the first Friday of the month
25. One way streets
26. Downtown flooding every time it rains
27. New Year's party
28. Music Farm - Old Crow Medicine Show
29. Surfers
30. Summers
31. Don't go to Folly after 10am any time after April unless you want to wait an hour in traffic
32. Sullivan's Island adventuring
33. Plantations
34. 109 Cannon St., Apt. F
35. Fuel, D'allesandro's, Hot Mustard, Hominy Grill
36. Bikram
37. Black Bean
38. Birthdays
39. Indian Fair
40. Wild Flour Sticky Buns and dog treats
41. Hampton Park
42. The Battery
43. Rainbow Row
44. Skinful...skinful
45. Very blonde hair
46. The difference between the beach and the rest of the world during summer
47. John's Island
48. James Island
49. Folly Beach - surfers, Sullivans Island - Families, Isle of Palms - Tourists
50. Follypalooza
51. Folly Beach Christmas Parade
52. Christmas Boat Parade
53. O'Malley's for football
54. AC's for brunch
55. Black out Sunday's when you try to combine AC's brunch with O'Malley's football
56. Don't go out downtown on St. Patrick's Day
57. Island Bar and Grill Kareoke