#allislost #allisnotlost

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Tiki Travel Tips no. 1 (a and b)! 1a -Buy your London-Paris Eurostar tickets in advance. They are embarrassingly expensive at the last minute. It is cheaper, but less charming, to fly. Cheapest option yet is a bus/ferry to Calais/bus option. The last is almost free, but do factor in the likelihood of vomiting your way across the Channel. Many a breakfast will end as fish food on that route. (If you are young and vomiting is a normal,though regrettable, part of a Saturday morning, take the cheap seats.) 1b. If you are on Eurostar, don't miss the Marks and Sparks Simply Food just across from the check-in. There is candy in souvenir tins to buy for everyone you holiday to forget. And for yourself, grab a charming cold beverage. The second Pimm's was warm by the time I'd gotten to my hotel in Paris, but the idea of it fortified me in the endless cattle pen taxi line at Gare Du Nord. I am very certain in hindsight that the metro would have been the better option.

I think I'll maybe go wipe my loneliness off on a sailor. #fleetweek #patriotism #memorialday #memorialdayweekend

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Lucky Tiki Cat!!! #yearofthedog

We outgrow our little outfits.

Tiki Travel Tip no. 3 In France, pick up an Opinel number 10 tire-bouchon. It is the ideal picnic knife. It's got a proper blade, sharp enough for meats and large enough to cut fruit, but still small enough to carry in your pocket. The corkscrew works perfectly. It is a simple tool for a civilized picnic. So much better than dinking into your food with a cheese knife or trying to open a bottle of wine with the delicate twisty prong of a survivalist's chatelaine. Loathe multibladed knifes. If ever I am reduced to using the same tool to saw through branches and gut fish, I'll desperately need a functioning corkscrew which they never have. I'll be very disappointed if I'm straining bits of cork out through my teeth during a zombie apocalypse. For now, while we can still lay on a blanket in the grass and eat glamorous snacks, it's good to have this knife. It is simple, unpretentious, and neither more nor less than it needs to be. #tikitested #tikiapproved

I color outside the lines all the time. #colour #copic #coloring #instaart #illo #illustration #

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