Where's Matthew?

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I popped out to buy some aspirin today. Of course, this being France, means that I have to go to a real pharmacy, queue, and wait for a pharmacist to see me. Okay, I've become accustomed to this system, so I don't fight it anymore. Although I still find it a crazy system.

It's the cost that drives me crazy. 16 aspirin in the UK cost £0.14 at the local supermarket, or about €0.18 in Euromoney. At the local pharmacy, the same 16 aspirin cost me €4.90. Or 27 times more expensive.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I have updated my blog, but that is mostly down to constant travel. I was in Switzerland for a few days, then Barcelona, then to Lisbon for a wedding, then back to Barcelona for a few days, and I am now finally back in Paris. It looks like I will actually get a full week in Paris this week (unless I have to go to London for the day on Friday – the outlook is 50/50 right now) followed by a week in the south of France. My first holiday in a year, and one that I am really looking forward to!

Darren and Lina’s wedding in Lisbon was fantastic – lots of entertainment, good food, and beautiful weather. We even got a more scenic tour of the Portuguese countryside than we anticipated, thanks to the bus driver’s detour when he couldn’t find the house.