Thanksgiving abroad was a little hard, probably harder than Christmas, because at least that's celebrated around the world. The Thanksgiving tradition however is purely American, and its observance is met with mainly mild amusement as Americans like myself ask friends to go out to dinner. On Thanksgiving day my friends and I headed to a steak house http://www.steakhousek1.cz/, which was recommended to me by my coworkers. They didn't have the traditional Turkey and stuffing, but I got to have a Kangaroo and an Ostrich with some bacon, cream and onion mashed potatoes, so that has got to count for something. Also my friend Ray got into the spirit of things and covered the gluttony portion of the holiday. The man devoured a 1kg platter of assorted meats like it was made of yogurt :-O (though for those non-metric users that works out to being about 2.2lbs, which isn't the most impressive thing by American standards, but still a lot of meat)
Holiday should become popular in his home country of Nigeria if he decides to spread the word about it ;-)
I also was fortunate enough to spend the Thanksgiving weekend in Paris. Big thank you to my friends, American Parisians: Romina (double duty: as guide and hostess :-D) and Peggy for spending the weekend with me, and fellow trainee Chen chen for providing me with photos of the trip. I had a wonderful time, but it is one of those cities where you need a better part of a week in optimal non-touristy season to get to see everything. I'll have to go back again some day to hit up the Louvre, Les Invalides, Versailles, Assemblé Nationale, and the Opéra Garnier.
However I did manage to see everything in the following map below. Lots of walking in the nippy 0 C weather. The warm mulled wine in the Christmas Market on Champs Elysees was the perfect thing to fight off the cold. Not included on the map or album was our night visit to the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, which features a terrific view of the skyline of Paris at night. So I'm throwing in some stock images of the place I pulled from the web.
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Holiday should become popular in his home country of Nigeria if he decides to spread the word about it ;-)
I also was fortunate enough to spend the Thanksgiving weekend in Paris. Big thank you to my friends, American Parisians: Romina (double duty: as guide and hostess :-D) and Peggy for spending the weekend with me, and fellow trainee Chen chen for providing me with photos of the trip. I had a wonderful time, but it is one of those cities where you need a better part of a week in optimal non-touristy season to get to see everything. I'll have to go back again some day to hit up the Louvre, Les Invalides, Versailles, Assemblé Nationale, and the Opéra Garnier.
However I did manage to see everything in the following map below. Lots of walking in the nippy 0 C weather. The warm mulled wine in the Christmas Market on Champs Elysees was the perfect thing to fight off the cold. Not included on the map or album was our night visit to the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, which features a terrific view of the skyline of Paris at night. So I'm throwing in some stock images of the place I pulled from the web.
Map
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Pictures of the trip
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