PARIS trip - Part two (b)

Day4: Monday the 4th of July


We had decided to get up sometime in the morning even though we had gone partying the previous day. We ended up actually managing to get out of the Hotel in the morning, a bit late but it was still morning so we were two proud ladies. 
Since we were so close to one of Paris's tourist attractions (as creepy as that may be) we decided to go visit the cemetary.
We got in and came to the conclusion that it was far bigger than we had thought by seeing it from the outside. We took a quick look at one of the maps and started looking around. I wanted to see where Oscar Wilde's resting place was but we couldn't find it. The next time we saw a map we took a shot at it and realised we were heading the wrong way. 

Cemetary map. On the left side there was a list with all the "important" people that are buried there for consultation.

We did find Jim Morrison's resting place. It was somewhat surreal. The grave itself is really small and humble but its placed on the back of another much taller grave so its barely noticeable. If it wasn't for the amount of tourists around it I would have kept on walking. Also as I was taking this shot a woman, american accent actually said with this very low pitch cool tone "Excuse me" and she just got over the security fence that had been placed there and started posing squated next to the grave. I am not one of those people who'll be shocked (at pretty much everything these days, especially in the lolita communities actually) but it still felt kind of... odd. Vania said later that she was relieved she only wanted to take a photo because she sounded like she was about to do something really odd and fangirlish... but at the same time, very interesting.

Jim Morrison's resting place. As you can see fans leave things for him there. One of Vania's friends that used to live in Paris said that sometimes girls will leave bras there as well. I also read that there have been thefts done there as some people might leave articles of some value as well. 

After that we got back to the hotel and got ready for the convention once more. I don't think I ever got dressed so fast. We didn't want to be late because the spanish girls had the fashion show and we really wanted to be there for them. We moved as fast as we could but when we got there we were 10min behind schedule. Unfortunately the convention staff was very strict and they did not let us in even for just a couple of minutes so we had to stay at the door to wait till the show was over. 

It was really hot out there and it was painful especially because we were very sad about missing the show. Oh well. We took the oportunity to talk to a couple of french lolitas and it was still a lot of fun. I would like to thank them for keeping us company.

Anyway we finally got in and managed to apologize to our friends for having missed the show. They still had the show outfits on and damn those Spanish designers can make gorgeous pieces, i loved their stuff!

Photo of random lolitas (and my back mind you) and the space #1

Photo of random lolitas and the space #2

I do not remember much of what happened that day, its been a while and i am not exactly famous for having the best memory out there... I remember i met with the Austrian girls which are always a blast. We sat and chatted for a bit and that was nice. I invited them to come visit Portugal but I am not sure if they will eventually come or not. Remember girls: Cheap Beer.

Me in the left then Jasmin, Ohrchen and Dani. Always smiling, always gorgeous and extremely friendly.

I also met the lovely Iiralina. The first thing one has to mention is how tall she is. Look let's put this into perspective: when we have meetups in my country i'm one of the tallest if not the tallest... now just check the photo and you'll know what I mean. 

The friendly iiralina and me. And no, we're not talking about boobs... although i'd totally engage in  that conversation . She was actually asking about the dress and I was showing the details in the bust where there's the gorgeous crossing. It's really one of my favorite dresses now. <3

I met a lot of new people that day but didn't take photos with them so its pointless to make a list. I'd just like to thank you for making me feel welcomed.

After that i headed downstair to see Bonbonmalefique's band play. She has a really beautiful voice and I rather enjoyed it.

Here they are, she's gorgeous right? And yeah she was wearing silent moon! Its so pretty life. I am thrilled about it.

And now I'll just randomly post photos I like. I haven't been doing that in these posts but I really feel like doing so today:

With the lovely Cris and the incredibly talented Fidel. She's wearing one of his creations  (that she had to buy!). 

I love this photo, it kinda shows how much fun I was having and I love that girl too so its like the perfect photo. <3

With Chrissi. We have a "regular" photo but this one is far more representative of our personalities haha. I love her too.

Ridiculous as it may sound this photo is the only one (except of photos of Vania but she'll want to post those on her blog i'm sure) photo I have where you can see some of the photography being displayed.

Cris is a Diva, she kept changing clothes! haha no but seriously look at how matchy matchy we were that day. She looked incredible! 

Anyway I really do not recall what happened after this other than us trying to decide where to go next. I was really tired from walking in those shoes for days and days. We were going to have dinner with Chrissi and her friends at a japanese place and they wanted to see the cemetary first. Vania looked at me with an evil glare as in saying "I can't walk that far! I'm dying!" and she was wearing sweet lolita flat shoes mind you. 

So we said goodbye to everyone and to the convention, wiped our tears and left the scene. 

On the way there, something quite amusing happened. We went past a wedding and the photographer say us go by and asked one of the girls if they could use her parasol for the wedding photos. So we had to stay there for a bit which was worth it because the parasol did add up to the bride's outfit.

We finally got to the cemetary and this time they got a map! So much easier. We found the resting place of Mr.Oscar Wilde which must be the strangest grave in the whole place. See for yourselves.

By this stage vania and I were really tired so we asked them if it would be ok for us to go change clothes while they visited the place. They said it was fine so we went to the hotel.

It was the hardest 15min of the entire trip. Not the worse but the most painful. 

When we were arriving, we got a call from Chrissi saying that they couldn't go have dinner because they were worried about their flight that night so we just said goodbye on the phone. I'll make sure I see her again in the future.

We laid down in bed for a long time, we were sooo tired! But we had to eat something so we called the spanish girls to see what they were up to. When we called them, we got word that one of them had been robbed and that they were in the Police station so of course we went there straight away! 

The police station was actually in the same street as Btssb which was... somewhat odd for us. It was a horrible situation but i tried my best to help out. We finally managed to get all the paperwork done with and went out to eat something and cheer the girls up a bit. We ended up having japanese food anyway, one of those restaurants owned by chinese which was fine actually, unlike what happens here that is. 

I ate a ton. I just adore sushi to be honest.<3

After this Ania and Sara wanted to go back to their apartment but Cris still had not seen the Eiffel tower so we decided we would take her there that night. We took the subway, got out.... had a blast. Seeing the tower is always special and its much more gorgeous at night. She got lucky because they turned the lights on as well so it was special. I am really glad we went there.

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That was it for the day. We took Cris home, went up to the apartment to say goodbye to everyone and we walked back to the hotel to get some much deserved sleep. We were very excited about our plans for the next day...

PARIS trip - Part two (a)

Day3: Sunday the 3rd of July

We slept a ton... we slept all through the night and morning and woke up a bit late. We didn't have a deadline this time so I guess we just took advantage of that freedom.
We had decided to go to the Lolita Convention by foot because according to google maps it was "only" 22minutes from the hotel to the location.
So we got dressed up really fast and left. We hadn't had the chance to walk around our area a lot before that so we had to rely on the map.
We decided to go through this huge avenue and after walking a while we realised we were on the opposite side of where we wanted to go! Also we were staying next to the famous Paris Père Lachaise cemetery which is the resting place for also a big number of celebrities. Apparently as we discovered the one that gets more visits is mr. James Douglas Morrison (Jim Morrison) and so we saw a lot of people dressed in black (not sure why) and some people wearing Doors tshirts etc. People saw us and because I was wearing gothic lolita people pretty much assumed that I had gone to visit his grave as well. One of the oddest people I talked too during this strange event was actually Portuguese! He heard us talking and was surprised that we were Portuguese so he engaged in a tiny conversation with us during which he said "Be careful while visiting. I came here a long time ago just to visit and it meant so much that I never left. I still come ere from time to time." Crazy huh?

So we went back to where we had come from and finally started heading over to the convention site. We came to the conclusion that walking that much in heels (regardless of how small they were) was more complicated than we thought. haha
We finally found the spot and it was a very normal and not very appealing street. It was also pretty much deserted and we were starting to wonder if we had gotten the place right...when we finally saw a parasol from afar which was enough to dissipate our doubts.

The ticket "booth" was a small table in the doorway but the people who were there were very nice to us. The ticket price was also very reasonable. It was of around 10 euros for the two days if i remember correctly.
We went in and the first room we saw was pretty goodlooking and confortable looking. There were tables in one side of the room and photography and artwork in the opposite wall.

There were stalls for the organization that put up the convention, for local artist/writer François Amoretti and the japanese store Chantilly.
There was also a small coffee stall with cake, snacks, coffee and drinks.

The one thing i noticed was that it was rather empty at this stage. At least I was hoping for more movement. But then it kinda hit me... the Angelic Pretty tea party was taking place at that time somewhere else so it was natural.



There was a small tunel connecting that room to the next. This room was very bright as the ceiling was made of glass in a section which made it also incredibly hot.

This room had a small section with tables and chairs that the visitors could use and the rest were all stalls with several western indies shops/creators as well as private stalls for other items. The ones I liked the best were Lusty’n Wonderland(French), and especially Clara Maeda(Spanish) and Fidel David(Spanish). I drooled over their designs so much! They are incredibly talented and have great taste. I'm really sad you can't see that from this photo. Do check out their work if you have some free time.

Finally you had the bottom floor. On that floor there was a small space with some other sellers with pretty handmade necklaces and brooches as well as fabric samples, a tiny room for second hand sales and the concert hall which has the merch for the bands and two other stores. One of them was making market studies for how well a store in france for mainly Putumayo and BPN would do. Gosh French lolitas have access to so much, it's really positive that lolita is spreading there. I often feel as if its not happening because I'm stuck in a place where it doesn't.

I met other people i never met in real life there too even though it wasn't very full on sunday. Especially Sarah and Nella.

With the lovely Nella, part of the organization for this event and representing Chantilly.

I had lunch with our new spanish friends and also left with Cris to go meet them (they wanted to visit a place before it was closing time).
I have to tell you something, the plate dosages in Paris are HUGE! I can't believe those salads. They really struggled to eat more than half of those haha.
A positive aspect is that when you ask for water they just bring you a whole bottle of tap water without complaining even. I think that's very considerate.
I had a good time.

After lunch we went back and after a little while we started so see the place get more visitors. We knew that there would be a Lolita Komplex soon so we waited for that.

I have to say that they all seemed really nice. I admit I only chatted with the vocalist and she was really charming and nice. I was happy to see that she wasn't one of those people who's talent raises up to her head (not sure you get what I mean) and that she was really focused as well. I wished them the best and told her I admire her for fighting for her dreams, which is true. We all know I know how much that can bite you in the ass for several reasons so I am really glad others still have the will to fight agains all that. Again, if you have some time, check out their myspace and work.

Finally the girls that were at the Angelic Pretty started to arrive and it was really fun because they are really lively and fun to be around with.
The girl from the new store project joined us and even gave us candy. She was adorable too. I swear I'm not sugar-coating anything, everyone was just really nice. XD

This photo was taken after the gig finished. You can see Sarah in the corner there, she was also super nice and it was awesome to meet her after all these years.
After this we got together with our spanish friends (yeah we did a lot of stuff together XD) because Cris hadn't seen a lot of Paris and the rest of us all had been there before. We decided to head over to Notre Dame. We got a bit lost and ended up at the Bastille instead and now me and Vania have a sentence for when we get lost that's related to it haha. But we eventually got there. Cris was delighted and it was really cool to be there again. We didn't go in, we just took some pictures, sat and chatted a bit. It was great.

Beautiful Notre Dame cathedral. I actually like it better from the back but everything is incredible.

After this I tried convincing the whole group to go party but two of the girls were beat and we split. We got in the metro and headed over to an area that has a lot of bars and night activity. I didn't know where the place was exactly so we got a super tasty kebab and I asked the clerk where it was. Turned out it was just two streets from there so it was super close. Where was I taking them? To dance to dj Sisen. When I heard he was in town i couldn't miss it! I always really liked his style for some reason and i love dancing (a-ha! bet that was news for you!) and plus I thought we needed to go out at least one night. We got to the place and were looking for the poster to make sure it was the right place and the bouncer looked at us, smiled and just said "yes, you're in the right place" haha.
We went in and Vânia and Cris were like... "wth? This guy is... weird" which was hilarious.
We danced, drank 4 euro!!! beers and had fun. When the set finished he finally came out after a "while" we finally got the chance to switch some words and take a picture with him.

Me & Sisen. Tired but super happy. It's not every day you get to dance to him dj-ing. haha

We then got in a Taxi and took Cris home and then returned to the Hotel. Another super busy and super tiring day. I can't believe I walked in those boots the entire time. 

Hope you liked reading. I'm a bit lazy but hopefully I'll find a way to post the remaining 3 days soon. Every day longer I take means information that I leave out because I am very forgetful.

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