Birthday and Biarritz

I feel I haven't updated for quite some time now. I'm looking through pictures to remember what I've done the past weeks...
I think I left of at the beautiful sunrise at Sacre Coeur... So that evening Madeleine and Mika came over and saw the apartment, we had a classic wine evening with home made chocolate cake, strawberries and vanilla cream, yummy! I treated Mika to a massage and later the boys came over to try some of the almost non existing cake (what do you expect when you leave four chocolate crazy girls with a cake in front of them...?)

The past weeks me and Julia have tried to do the things we've missed, like Pompidou (modern art still isn't my cup of tea) I did get offered a role in a short film though by some creepy artist, I said no.... Trying to walk to La Fayette we got lost and found the cutest and oldest little galerie with old book shops and a vintage store. Adorable!

We went to a jazz club called La caveau in Saint Michel. Located in the most touristy area it is really genuine and cute. Bartender is funny, band is great, atmosphere pleasant, top grades really! Got to dance some swing as well!

Oh and it was my birthday! Hip hip hurrah! 22 years old, wow...
We started the day before with Mika, Julia, Helena, my two old room mates from mexico, two girls from Denmark, Fynn and Phil, pic nic in the park of a student residence. We had such a great and crazy night, I got thrown in the air by the boys, we jumped through bushes (nothing I haven't done before), I tried, successfully, to climbed a very big fence, got some bruises but I made it, and then we biked all the way home, about 50 minutes...

With very little sleep, some of us had none, we made our way to Chateau Versailles! The garden is one of the most beautiful places I've seen, it wasn't too crowded either so it felt rather peaceful.

We had a party at the "British boys" house, farewell and B'day party! So much fun, some girls from Estaca had baked me a birthday cake (never met them before so this was very sweet!) and Fynn baked a banana toffee cake (it's a pie, I know!)
I got some great presents but best of all was being with the people who made my trip so great!

Shots in a Swedish flag (Vodka, orange juice and Curaca and vodka, some contain gin also)

Estaca "shitaca" crowd

I left the house at 5.00 to wake Julia up after 2 hours sleep. We packed and at 7.10 we took the train to Biarritz! Wohooo!!! Sleep zzzzzz, at least the 5 hour train ride went really quickly. We were greeted by nice weather and Flo whos couch we stayed on. I really randomly ran into Gustav Sverin from my high school. The world is a small place!

The weather went on to get shitty so we decided to try surfing! You know what... We rocked it!

Surfing is not easy.... But we managed to stand up the first time and our instructor said I did très bien! =D

Second time we tried, we went with a group who'd done surfing for some time, so I was a little worried about the level. The weather was shit, it was raining and the waves quite high. I'm not super confident in water so I was a little scared. I did get the board in my head the first day so after that I kind of felt like, well, that was the worst that could happen so... This time felt more scary because you were out on deeper water and once you got out it was fine, but if you managed to catch a wave and wanted to go out again after you had to go through all the broken waves coming your way. It was not easy, and they knock you over, but as soon as you get up over the surface again, another one comes! Really tiring and finally I managed to locate the instructor and he took us in to more shallow water. The third and last day went really really well! I stood up most times, all the way to the beach and I even managed to catch an unbroken wave and follow it sideways! So proud!

We had one day of good weather and we got super burnt. "It's the only day with sun, let's skip sun screen and just fry ourselves all day" great idea Madeleine....

Biarritz is beautiful, I'd love to go back, and I definitely want to do surfing again!