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06-07-2016, 02:07 PM | #1 |
between the waves
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: France
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A three day trip to Ireland... Almost everything went according to plan ! Almost...
JUNE 1, 2016
Location : France Exterior temperature : not brilliant for june Weather : flooding At first I thought I'd take a train very early (think 4am) on june 2 to get to the shuttle that was going to the airport, buuuuuuut with the strikes in France, the super bad weather, and a tingling sense at the back of my neck, I thought it would be a good idea to get a room in Paris and get there the day before. Wise decision (for once) especially since the normal 1h train trip to Paris turned out as 3h a little because of said strikes, and more specifically because of landslides and collapsings under the rails : we did have to switch train, swap train itinerary to the west of Paris, and so on and so forth... I was starting to get a tiny weenie bit of anxious to be honest. I mean things had already started to NOT go according to plan when I received (while in the train) the notification of delivery from Amazon for an item that was supposed to be here a week ago and that I wanted to hand to Lisa to have it autographed. Be cursed Amazon ! I was imagining myself pinning needles on their logo in a helpless Voodoo attempt at getting revenge... Finally reached my hotel in the outskirts and got greeted, out of the metro station, by some architecture I totally forgot still existed in Paris. Then again, in the same vicinity was some another bizzarre one of a style I didn't think ever existed in Paris. Oh well let's take pictures and start getting warmed up with the camera. My bedroom at the hotel was... "Quaint" ! But it sure was cheap so i'm not going to complain. That said, the walls were thin as cigarette paper or so it seemed and I actually spent the night NOT sleeping, or maybe barely a couple hours before my 5h30 taxi to get to the shuttle. Last edited by SillyAnonymousPianist; 06-28-2018 at 10:09 PM. Reason: (correcting broken link for images) |