Cannes Film Festival

This weekend is a long weekend in France. My favourites even though I'm not working, it just means I get to see more of eveyone and everyone is in a great mood.

Yesterday we went over to Cannes for the festival and strolled the prom, we did our best to hunt down the celebrities but they are a wily lot and we saw zero famous folk. I'll just have to wait to see the photos in Hello!, OK magazine and The Enquirer.


All the stars' boats


The only star we saw was a robot!

The weekend has got off to a great start with more than a few drinks at Smarties and Deux Freres bar, and being invited for a bbq on Sunday to watch the grand prix in Monaco on Sunday. Yippeee, and hopefully making a new friend. We did try to make a few more, but obviously shouting across from your balcony saying, "Are you English... do you fancy going for a drink?" does not work here in the Cote d'Azur and should be best left to Ibiza or Fuertuventura. We were a bit disappointed that they didn't come out but I did like the way Dan put it: "They've missed out on some great friends!"


Dan at Smarties bar

And that pound I've been trying to shed has finally come off whooooohooo.

Health eating

This week has all been about trying to eat healthily and hopefully lose some weight along the way. To be fair I think I was getting there until Saturday and a killer hangover made me resort to my last bottle of Lucozade packed with about a thousand calories. I really wish I hadn't as the 1lb I did lose has gone straight back on, but I do have until Wednesday weigh in day to re-lose my pound.

What have we eaten:

From Ainsley Harriott's low fat meals in minutes we tried the following
Lemon garlic chicken with coriander - tasted amazing
Roasted onion, rocket and percino salad - yum, yum
Grilled peaches and mint feta cheese salad - hmmm, I think I put too much lemon juice in the salad dressing

From Channel 4's healthy food site we tried:
Feta and pomegranate salad
Chicken with mango salad, this seemed to be Dan's favourite although I'm not keen on Mango and the day had been a bit ofa Mango disaster which put me off but it was nice.

Chicken Fu-Yung - wow, simple chinese cookbook
Fattoush - a middle eastern cookbook

Turkish Chopped Salad - defiantely a winner from the 2nd Moro Cookbook

As for next week I haven't decided what to cook yet, but it will definately be on the same lines and I might just try doing a run or two and see if that helps shed a few pounds...

Brownie Points...

Finally I have finished my CELTA in Paris and passed so although I'm looking for a job, I have time again to start blogging. And yes, for those of you thinking about doing your CELTA it is hell! Yes, I am now a fully qualified English teacher.

For those of you stuck in England, I just have to tell you I had to leave the beach early today as it was so windy; but what I really want to talk about is my wonderful boyfriend...

What did he do to gain all those brownie points?

For passing my CELTA he took me back to rainy Manchester to see Razorlight, which was fantastic and then on to Sankey's after. Although the whole weekend was brilliant as we managed to meet up with a few folk, it got off to an impressive start with him booking a room for the night at the Palace Hotel in Manchester - both of us had big grins!! However the hotel was a bit of a disapointment as it was freezing and our room was above the bus stop on Oxford road...but he still gets brownie points for effort and surprise.