Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Paris travel diary: On route to the Louvre

On a hot parisian day I ventured out to see the Notre-Dame Cathedral then walked towards the Louvre Museum, passing by the lock bridge (by accident). I then ended up going to "visit" Galleries Lafayette and ended up spending about 3 hours shopping up a storm; I'll show you all what I ended up buying in the next post!

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Top: Red Herring via Debenhams / Bag: Longchamp / Sunglasses: Prada

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Saturday, 27 July 2013

Paris travel diary: Eiffel tower

A trip to Paris is not complete without a visit (or 3) to the Champ de Mars, where the Eiffel tower stands tall in it's glorious iron detailed presence. Since I was staying about a 10 minute walk away from it, I went to see it on my first day there after returning from Versailles. I went again on the last night I was there and one last time the morning before I left to Lyon.

PS. I am currently in Armenia, where I'm originally from! this is the third time I've visited my homeland and I cannot wait to share Armenia with you all through my eyes. You can follow me on instagram to check out some live snippets before I post the blog posts in the coming few weeks, after the Lyon and Rome travel diaries.


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Top: Red Herring via Debenhams / Bag: Witchery / Sunglasses: Prada

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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Paris travel diary: Chateau de Versailles

This is quickly becoming a travel blog but my blog from the start was about my many interests which is why I called it Seven Autumn Leaves, and traveling is a big part of me (well when I have the chance to anyways)

I only had 2 days to discover Paris, a city I had been dreaming of visiting one day from when I was a little girl studying French in school for so many years. Now my French isn’t so great, it wasn’t fluent to start with and it’s been years since I’ve finished school but I knew enough to get me by. I definitely advise learning a few key sentences and words that would be helpful for you, especially if you go to areas that are not very tourist-y. This applies to other non-english speaking cities as well. Also learn how the metro map works as quick as you can; have a print out of the metro lines, start mapping out where you want to go and try to work out how to get from points A to B to C.

I arrived Paris in the morning and went to Chateau de Versailles after dropping off my bag. I have never been anywhere so beautiful! Because I was really tired though I went through the rooms quickly, well as quick as all the tour people let me since they were so many of them slowing you down. I still managed to see most of it though and took a few snaps to show you all.

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Saturday, 20 July 2013

London local designer: Tessa Metcalfe


One of my favourite things to do while traveling is checking out the local scene, especially the local designers. As a jewellery designer myself, I was fascinated by the work of the lovely Tessa Metcalfe who I came across at one of Boxpark’s pop-up shops in Shoreditch. She explained that she made these gorgeous rings and pendants from actual pigeons’ feet after they have met their end. Tessa's passion about what she makes was very inspirational to me and it really shows through her work. Check out her website for more information and where to buy them!


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