I went back to France in summer 2008. I found a host on couchsurfing in Paris who lived close to Bastille and I spent one week with him. We spent hilarious time together, we visited Aquaboulevard (I went there for the first time in 2003, I really liked this place but there was too much chlorine for me), where we took a bath in jacuzzi and I was jumping on the waves. We went for a dinner to the restaurant with other couchsurfers who stayed at my host's place and we walked by night in Paris close to Louvre. I met also some of my old friends in Paris and my previous hosts. One of my close friends got married with a Polish girl and we met all together at Bastille with a Russian girl who also lived in Paris. I saw them again after 3 years, in 2005 we met at La Defense when my previous host organized a barbecue on the terrace in his flat in the high-rise building.
After visiting Paris I decided to travel to Marseille and my stay there became very chaotic soon as I had to change hosts 4 times during one week. The first host, Bruno, took me to a beach which was between Marseille and Montpellier and I tasted for the first time sea urchin there. The taste was very similar to oyster but much more concentrated. Bruno hosted me for 2 nights and then told me that he was leaving to Montpellier and couldn't host me anymore. I had to find another couchsurfer quickly and I posted a message to the emergency couch group. I found Cedric who hosted me one night and we had a party on the rooftop. I couldn't stay longer with him because he hosted other people. I went on the beach by myself during the day and then I met my old love in Marseille (the one from 2005). I had already arranged a stay with a couchsurfer so we met him in the evening and we went to his flat to have a dinner (he invited also my friend). The following day my friend took holidays from work and we went to a beach. In the evening when we met my host he asked us if we wanted to go to the beach with him in Cassis and then Japanese restaurant. Later when we returned home the couchsurfer asked my friend to host me and then he started blaming me that he didn't want my friend to join us and he didn't trust me that I wouldn't my friend enter his flat when he wasn't there so I left the following day in the morning. I didn't have any contact with this couchsurfer again after leaving Marseille.
I moved to the flat of my friend for the remaining two days and we visited Calanques and Vallon des Auffes. This place impressed me much because it was picturesque, I was swimming there in the harbor and I had an amazing time. We went to a pizzeria where I ordered a pizza with Coquilles Saint-Jacques (honestly I didn't like it much, I would have enjoyed more common pizza with mushrooms and ham). My friend found a sea food restaurant where we ordered a big plate with many different kinds of sea food (e.g. crab, mussels, oyster), but when I ate one mussel it made me very sick. The time with my friend was partly great and partly joyless because we were discussing too much our previous relation and no conclusion was derived.
After my trip to France I returned to Prague for some weeks and then I went back to Wageningen to discuss the topic of my thesis with my supervisor. I was supposed to write about risk perception of mobile phones and conduct research on my own. However, after I returned to the Czech Republic, my studies didn't go well.