THINGS TO DO IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE STUCK IN PARIS OVER A PERIOD IN AUGUST WITH LOTS OF FREE TIME/

1. Take a distance cours in Finance Management at University of London online, (pretend you're at work.)

2. Check who is stuck in town on the geolocator on asmallworld, try to make some new friends

3. Bring your laptop, your iPad a blanket and a basket with food to the nearest park and make a "park office" stay there all day long, skype with your mum and pay your bills online, buy lots of stuff on E Bay, insist on getting them delivered to the park.

4. Watch all the movies from the 80's you never had time to see, (specially the ones including Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas)

5. Write an erotic novel and involve all of your previous lovers.

6. Write stupid lists on blogs.

7. Read everything about how to start a business on www.entrepreneur.com

8. Start a business

9. Skype with people on vacation while drinking sangria and spraying on Hawaïan Tropic until they can physically feel your presence

10. Go spiritual, check out movies like "The Secret" and meditate several times a day, reconsider India as a very nice destination and check trips on the net to go there instead of to the closing partys in Ibiza.

(11. Or just book a ticket and get out of here....)