If you've been checking my blog...

If you’ve been checking my blog I apologise for the fact that it’s been a long time since I wrote anything. It’s been one of those years^LB1, you know. Maybe Spring has stimulated something; maybe a weekend in Paris and a few days in England have made me feel guilty about not ’blogging’ regularly. I’m not a natural ‘blogger’, I’m afraid.

Anyway, Paris a couple of weeks ago was my first time outside Poland in 8 months. Coming back to Krakow, it was the first time I thought “Krakow is small!’ I didn’t feel that after Vienna, Berlin or even London. London especially is big, but it’s really lots of smaller things added together – look at how many football clubs represent different parts of it (Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Fulham, Queens Park Rangers, Brentford, Charlton Athletic, Milwall. Leyton Orient). I feel Paris as one big thing, as having one big identity. Krakow has a wonderful small identity in comparison.

I love Paris! It has gone straight to No1 in my list of European cities, pushing Berlin to No2. It looks good. It tastes good. It smells good. It sounds good. And it sounds loud.^LB2 Parisians are very noisy. And they actually say ‘O la la’ when they nearly bump into^LB3 you! It’s just so sweet!

I would like to go there again and again. There’s just one snag.^LB4 It costs an arm and a leg.^LB5  The cheapest beer I saw in a café was 8 euros for 50 cl. Now that’s what I call paying through the nose. ^LB5

Language blog

LB¹ One of those days/weeks/months/years means a time (a year in my case) when there have been problems.

LB² Grammar point – all these verbs – look, feel, sound, taste, seem, feel are followed by adjectives e.g. It tastes delicious.

LB³ bump into – walk into someone/something by accident; or meat someone by chance

LB⁴ a snag – a problem

LB⁵ cost an arm and leg; pay through the nose for something – be extremely expensive