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Little Miss Manuel and I are off on our jollies to Paris in a few weeks time. It should be noted that little to no planning has been done for this our first venture to the French capital. We are very much excited at the thought of it all - the style, the galleries, the museums, the big towers, the coffee oooh the coffee, the food, the waiters! Oh yes I cant wait to learn from the masters of snootiness and arrogance. Hey maybe I can teach them a few things, like subtlety and the art of being rude without getting busted.

Christ I love a good stereotype.

I've been frantically searching for a good restaurant in which to celebrate my birthday but am simply overwhelmed with the choices available. I did consider Alain Ducasse' Plaza Athénée Restaurant but after a quick shoofty at the menu I realised that it simply wasn't gonna happen. As much as I want to celebrate my 36th birthday in style I really couldn't justify the best part of £800 or sixteen hundred of your American dollars for dinner. And that doesn't include wine. For that price I want the food to cut itself. Hell for that money I want the waiter to feed me and make airplane noises and generally amuse me.

So this is our itinerary for our three days in Paris.

Day one: Check into hotel, relax for a bit, get some food.
Day two:
Day three:
Day four: Get plane home

If someone could fill in the blanks that would be just great. No, but seriously, if anyone knows of good restaurants for lunch and dinner that would be fantastic. Obviously some places speak for themselves, the Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, The Rhodia Notebook shop and what have you but if you know of anything or anywhere below the radar that we should see or do then let me know. I trust you, honest.

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I don't post very often on a Saturday but I will be from this Saturday and for the next few weeks. I am starting a new feature. Settle, I know many of my new features have disappeared after the first post never to be seen again but I'm not writing this one so whoopee! I give vegetarians and their crazier cousin the vegan a hard time. I call them salad botherers and meat dodgers and make spurious claims about their ability to stay awake. But maybe, just maybe I've been a bit too hard on our lamb loving friends. So with that in mind I'm giving a new vegan the right of reply. The Voluptuous Vegan will be documenting her journey from veggie to vegan and all that it entails, eating out, eating at home, the difficulty of finding vegan wine (?) and so much more.

It starts tomorrow, so make a cup of elderberry tea, tuck into a tofu burger and welcome the Voluptuous Vegan's, Well Done Nut Roast.