Notes from Paris and the Perigord
Apr 1st, 2004, 05:38 PM
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Mellen, your trip report is FABOOOO!!
I'm so glad you made over there safely and relatively in one piece.
envyenvyenvy Sigh - a BIG fire waiting for you. I think I'd just fall asleep in the chair - LOL!
But peace and quiet at last, no cherie?
I'm looking forward to the rest of your report!!
I'm so glad you made over there safely and relatively in one piece.
envyenvyenvy Sigh - a BIG fire waiting for you. I think I'd just fall asleep in the chair - LOL!
But peace and quiet at last, no cherie?I'm looking forward to the rest of your report!!
Apr 1st, 2004, 06:47 PM
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Thanks for the laughs, St. Cirq. I read this today during a very long meeting and had to stiffle my giggles!
How on earth can you get off an overnight flight AND a long train ride and still be able to drive?
regards ... Ger
How on earth can you get off an overnight flight AND a long train ride and still be able to drive?
regards ... Ger
Apr 1st, 2004, 09:36 PM
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Michael: regarding the small tip (4 euros, by the way), I really did think Gangsta Jacques might want to rethink serenading customer with the likes of " take this you mother****ing ho' or I'll kick your pregnant belly, b**ch." I'm not a prude, but 23 minutes of the likes of that was, er...a tad less than professional.
Thanks for all the tips on Autocorrect. Don't know if I'll absorb them in time for the next installment, but I'll try. Right now there's a Brigadoon-like fog seeping through the Vezere valley, the mad rooster has been crowing since dawn, and I've got a steaming bowl of coffee in my hands and two eggs laid yesterday boiling on the stove. Off to market in Le Buisson as soon as the fog lifts.Then, I'm going to clean out some closets and take a load of stuff to the ecole maternelle, which is sponsoring a vide-grenier on Sunday. Good opportunity to get rid of some of the weird stuff renters leave behind - like a half-dozen size 48D bras
Thanks for all the tips on Autocorrect. Don't know if I'll absorb them in time for the next installment, but I'll try. Right now there's a Brigadoon-like fog seeping through the Vezere valley, the mad rooster has been crowing since dawn, and I've got a steaming bowl of coffee in my hands and two eggs laid yesterday boiling on the stove. Off to market in Le Buisson as soon as the fog lifts.Then, I'm going to clean out some closets and take a load of stuff to the ecole maternelle, which is sponsoring a vide-grenier on Sunday. Good opportunity to get rid of some of the weird stuff renters leave behind - like a half-dozen size 48D bras
Apr 2nd, 2004, 02:13 AM
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Great trip report StCirq. Usually just seeing your name in a thread makes me green with envy but as I now am suffering from from post vacation blues with a French accent it is worse! At least I can live vicariously through you so please keep the reports coming!
Can you tell me what the 'ecole maternelle' is? We kept seeing signs for them but my less than satisfactory dictionary wouldn't divuge.
Can you tell me what the 'ecole maternelle' is? We kept seeing signs for them but my less than satisfactory dictionary wouldn't divuge.
Apr 2nd, 2004, 04:18 AM
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StCirq, you are just absolutely the best! Your writing is so vividly descriptive, every phrase presents an immediate vision, complete with sensation.
Enjoy your stay. May your roof tiles not clatter with the hooves of sheep.
Enjoy your stay. May your roof tiles not clatter with the hooves of sheep.
Apr 2nd, 2004, 02:18 PM
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StCirq,
Your story reminds me so much of an experience I had a few years ago.
My husband and I had finished our trip to France in Eze, and had an early flight from Nice to make our connection in Paris for the trip home to the States.
This was just 3 weeks after 9/11, and even though we arrived at the airport in Nice in what we thought was plenty of time, they had closed the flight and wouldn't let us on the plane!
They told us, "No problem. We'll put you on the next flight to Paris." But, unfortunately the next flight to Paris wasn't for about an hour, making our connection <i>very</i> tight, and to top it off, it was into Orly instead of CDG!
So we took that flight , and arrived at Orly, ran out and grabbed a taxi, and explained our situation to the driver, who set what I thought <i>had</i> to be new land speed records on our trip to Charles de Gaulle.
The only thing we were missing was the gangsta rap music! (our driver was a seemingly sedate middle-aged man).
Well, we gave our driver a BIG tip, and made our flight with minutes to spare. (As if traveling wasn't already nerve-racking <i>enough</i> right after 9/11!)
Your story reminds me so much of an experience I had a few years ago.
My husband and I had finished our trip to France in Eze, and had an early flight from Nice to make our connection in Paris for the trip home to the States.
This was just 3 weeks after 9/11, and even though we arrived at the airport in Nice in what we thought was plenty of time, they had closed the flight and wouldn't let us on the plane!
They told us, "No problem. We'll put you on the next flight to Paris." But, unfortunately the next flight to Paris wasn't for about an hour, making our connection <i>very</i> tight, and to top it off, it was into Orly instead of CDG!
So we took that flight , and arrived at Orly, ran out and grabbed a taxi, and explained our situation to the driver, who set what I thought <i>had</i> to be new land speed records on our trip to Charles de Gaulle.
The only thing we were missing was the gangsta rap music! (our driver was a seemingly sedate middle-aged man).
Well, we gave our driver a BIG tip, and made our flight with minutes to spare. (As if traveling wasn't already nerve-racking <i>enough</i> right after 9/11!)
