My main goal was to visit an exhibit at the Guimet museum in Paris which I did. You can read about it in my Silla : Gold and the Sacred. Royal Treasures of Korea exhibit post. 

I arrived in Paris via the Eurostar just before 2 p.m. and went straight to the museum. After viewing the exhibit, I spent time to have a quick tour of the other stuff on display and there really are gems here. One of my favourite pieces I saw has to be this fella with a stupid amount of arms.

There was another demon looking fella with a very character driven face hidden around a corner. I really like him as well.

So, after having an additional wander I proceeded over to visit Norte-Dame Cathedral to see how the works are going and had a nice relaxing walk around there seeing a lot of the restoration. It truly is an impressive place. Upon exiting Norte-Dame it was already after 6 p.m. and there was an even bigger queue to get into the Cathedral, although it’s free to enter, it can take half an hours wait to get in, if not longer, so I do recommend you get online and get a timed slot ticket to escape the queue if it’s a must for you.

Afterwards, I headed back to my hotel which is opposite Gare Du Nord train station. And it’s really interesting outside the station, a unique diversity for sure! I felt like I had to navigate a gauntlet to cross the road, some guys wanted to approach me with flyers. Another said something I ignore, as I pushed my cap down to hide my face. I circled round to the zebra crossing and made it across unscathed!

After checking into the hotel, I had dinner there and went upstairs to watched the England game against Argentina in the hotel and the noise around when goals went in. Well, that was a different kind of experience and the constant vibe of sirens and blue flashing lights outside down bellow felt very New York to me. I kept imagining some kind of dystopia down there while I was safe in the high-tower! However, the bed was very comfortable and I did get sleep in the end after listening to the chaos below. The next morning I had breakfast in the hotel to find a guy from Highbury in London serving breakfast who now lives in Paris. He traded London life for the Parisian life-style which he told me is far more laidback. After breakfast, I checked out and returned early to London.

Dinner and the Node NPC Arrival

After returning from France, I realised I had a problem for dinner, I had stuff in the fridge, but for a main meal. Not really, and in the freezer, nearly all of it other than chips needed proper defrosting for at least a day. So, I decided to go round the corner to the shops, where one new placed popped up this year.

A burger smash joint, that surprisingly does not just burgers, but breakfast, pasta’s along with a lot of other stuff!! I find the food surprisingly not bad, and it stupidly good value for London.

I’ve been in here before, but the last time there was a woman just sitting there listening to, what I realised was a story and it sounded like AI dribble. 

So, this evening when I went in there, wait did I just go through a portal, the lady, same spot, same AI dribble playing sitting where she was last time. Hang-on a minute, there people who were behind her are not there! So… this is clearly an NPC spawn. Yep, she is an NPC!

I ordered my food, sat in the same place as last time, because frankly, out of all the seats it’s the furthest away from her! But this is no ordinary NPC,  people reacted with her. A boy walked past the front outside and waved hello, even a delivery driver turned up and recognised her. Jesus, she’s on a permanent spawn. Now she is a node NPC!

I better get my food defrosted then!