I'm always benefiting from y'alls vlog recaps so I'll take one for the team today.
0:30-- ok this started normal but she's drinking juice on then train and manages to make it look so smug. Like how? can drinking juice look THIS smug. Also she opens a container of fruit, sniffs it, and puts it away. Must have had too many blueberries for her.
1:00-- Weather report. I maintain this is Niomi's true calling.
2:39-- "I'm actually wearing quite a lot of colour today!" in head-to-toe beige. She is wearing a colourful scarf and clutching what must be the ugliest handbag I have ever seen.
3:00-9:30-- She spends this whole time monologuing in front of the camera. She mentions like 5 times that she's stayed at this hotel before. States repeatedly that she loves doing things alone. Talks about taking a journal with her to a restaurant so that she doesn't feel uncomfortable eating solo.
10:31-- Niomi takes three miniature bites from a croissant. She gestures wildly. "I am just living my best life! Very happy!" The clock behind her reads 1:20 pm; she has been vlogging since 6 am. IF she ate the train-fruit (rather than just sniffing it) and finished the smug train-juice, she is maybe up to 200 calories in 7.5 hours. A reminder to anyone reading that THIS IS NOT HEALTHY.
11:50-- She recaps her newly-published article: Paris is the city of love. Niomi is dating herself. She is in love with herself. Funny, we hadn't noticed. Then she eats lunch! She's been travelling for probably 8 hours at this point. She starts with wine (bold choice on a stomach that empty) and has the sweet potato gnocchi of her Instagram post. I'm praying that she actually finished it because watching her tiny bites stresses me out.
13:40-- she's talking about art. Niomi the bookworm is, it turns out, also an art fanatic. She's a bit of an artist herself! She draws mandalas at home. This is all very inspiring. Paris is one big art gallery.
16:45-- Weather update! It's raining, in Paris, in February. Niomi does not have an umbrella. Maybe I was wrong about meteorology being her true calling :-( But don't worry guys she's SO HAPPY.
17:15-27:40 oh god we're monologuing again. About solo travel. Again. Really, she loves being on her own. Really. She's very lucky not to have children just at the moment. So, so happy. She talks about travelling safely as a solo woman. Her advice: "Trust content creators like myself." Links are in the description box below. Amazing. This monologue lasts over 10 minutes. Again, amazing
28:30-- An important update: it is raining again. Also dinner alone last night was fine. We all should not worry about eating alone, it's nothing to be nervous about. She really, really likes it. Really.
31:30-- She just realised her scarf is like a Rothko. She didn't plan that
I am tired of hearing her say Rothko and Rothkos. "I GET the Mark Rothkos" she says, and "I'll explain later" but I do not want her to explain.
31:50-40:46-- She explains. Monologuing at a restaurant. "I've had quite the experience, experiencing Mark Rothkos." Niomi explains to us the concept of an art exhibition and her very own, totally original idea that art is not meant to be liked but to be felt. More radical ideas: Art is transcendent. It might even be political. Nothing is as it seems. Art is about the process just as much as it's about the final product. Most people don't know these things. It is impossible to count how many times Niomi says "transcendence". She has a massive glass of wine, bread (which she shows to the camera) and a piece of salmon (not shown). I suspect this is her first meal today. She calls it lunch. It is 4:30 pm.
(Side note I'm actually genuinely kind of happy for our simple-minded girl that she's discovering the beauty of art. It's a shame she has to be insufferable about it, but really! It's like watching a child see snow for the first time.)
41:30-- the faun painting which is like a remembrance of her ancestors. Imagine having that on your living room wall, she says. She's imagining having a living room. Girl, you threw your life away for a donkey. It's sad.
42:00-- Home in London for one final monologue about how much she loves travelling alone. She nearly has a massive epiphany about how doing something for content is not the same as doing it for yourself, but (thank goodness) that idea narrowly misses her and she goes on to remind us how very, very, truly happy she is. Yay.
She says "beautiful" only 16 times in this video, and noticeably mixes in synonyms like "lovely", "gou-geous" and "cute". I suppose we'll have to settle for that as character development