Paris (Fashion Week) Photo Diary - Feel At Home - #TravelThursday
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Bonjour ma cherie!
This weekend I was in
Paris! As cliché as It may sound, I was blown away. I felt at home. I was
equipped with an iPhone 6 Plus to capture beautiful memories and a Three sim
card to enable me to share beautiful moments. Having the Three network meant I
had the amazing ‘Feel At Home’ service. Feel At Home is a service by Three
where you are able to use your phone abroad at no extra cost, so you literally
use your minutes, texts AND INTERNET just as you would in England. I don’t know
if any of you guys saw their Feel At Home advert from last year? I absolutely
loved it, it was so me! Everything from the hashtag to the sarcasm haha. This
post is truly symbolic of the #holidayspam hashtag used in that advert –
narrowing down the number of pictures taken was so hard and took absolute ages but I hope you love
it! Ooooh and P.S. the rest of the pictures from this point on were taken with an iPhone 6 Plus on the go!
It’s been a few days
since I’ve been back and I still can’t believe how amazing it was, the trip was
made that extra bit special with Feel At Home. The minute I got to France, it
worked. Automatically! I didn’t have to do anything. Nothing beats being able
to speak to your mum on the phone, or text your dad in a completely different
country just as you would in England, but without having to worry about an
unethical roaming charge haha. It’s honestly the little things in life that
make all the difference.
Travelling is trés therapeutic,
it’s so soothing. That being said, being able to keep in touch with everyone
and everything at home is equally as soothing as it’s so reassuring!
I initially started typing
this as I overlooked Paris. Life is a wonderful thing and life really is petit.
That’s French for short. Technology has revolutionsed the way we communicate
with one another and it’s incredible. No other network gives you the
opportunity to this and as I said I was blown away – somewhat overwhelmed.
Actually ‘overwhelmed’ it the perfect word. I expected it would be great but
not this great!
When I got to Paris, my aunty picked me up from the station, I hadn’t seen her in ages so it was great! We took the metro to her house as there was bundles of traffic on the way. She lives in a place in France called Bondy which is somewhat the outskirts of Paris and we had to get all the way back to Paris where the hotel was, thankfully I had Feel At Home and was able to use the Google Maps app on my iPhone 6 Plus. It took about an hour to get to the hotel from her house but we just followed the Sat Nav app on the phone got there fine in the end! It worked amazingly and if it weren’t for Feel At Home, the charges would have been absolutely mad from all the internet needed for satellite navigation! It really is the little things in life.
Have you ever gone on
holiday, cheekily put on your mobile internet when you shouldn’t have, just to
quickly upload a selfie on social media or even to spam your friends with
holiday pics? #holidayspam haha – THIS IS ME ALWAYS. I still can’t get my head
around not having to worry about a bill of a hundreds of pounds all for those
few selfies (or “eiffels”, as in Eiffel tower… selfie... get it?) that accumulated. No
more hoping a random area will have free wifi because you’re dying to post
something or even just check something!
It was amazing being in
Paris during Paris Fashion Week, such a great vibe! I particularly like street
style and getting to know the people behind the fashion! Paris brings out the
minimalist in me, I pretty much developed chromophobia (yup, the fear of
colour) - it was all about black, white, marble and just my signature splash of
red lipstick. I wore my Queu Queu Marble Tshirt for the main day I was there,
Saturday. As well as casing my phone in a Queu Queu Marble Case. It’s safe to
say I was marbled out haha. Throughout my short but sweet stay, I gave out lots
of free smiles to the people of Paris and they all seemed to love my Minnie Ears! You’d think they’d be used to seeing it by now but it seemed to make
everyone smile which was lovely to see! Lots of lovely people said “tres Jolie”
(very beautiful) to me, which was super nice! Oooh and a lot of people asked to
take pictures with me which was endearing haha.
I’m so grateful.
Let’s all take more
weekends away to Paris or Milan or New York or Marbella or... I literally nearly
just listed cities of all the 18 countries that Feel At Home is available in.
The most amazing thing is
that this isn’t an advert, Three sent me out to Paris equipped with an iPhone 6
Plus and a magical sim card – I was simply asked to do what I want and say what
I want (if I want) in the process. This is how I feel. I feel great. I feel
grateful. I feel at home. Yup that was very cheesy, I am cheesy, I am a cheese,
I cheese (didn’t work quite as well did it haha) – oooh I had an interesting
chicken and cheese Panini last night. You see what happened was, I was meant to
take a picture but then I was hungry and my phone seemed so far away at the
time LOL.
Until next time!
P.S. did you know that Disneyland Paris isn’t ACTUALLY in Paris? I’ve literally been living a lie for 21 years!
However I must say that nothing makes me feel more at home than this beauty:
Yours sincerely,
Jennifer Agwunobi
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