Paris and Boston, Wednesday

[flexagon]

Our last day in Paris was a short one, despite getting up early. norwoodbridge and I split off from the other friends we were with, and went to Starbucks and (at last!) to a pharmacie to get the things we can't get at home -- the headache medication with codeine, and ibuprofen gel. Then we decamped to a nearby park for an hour of pre-plane stretching, super basic acro and listening to the French as they lunched and chattered around us. We agreed it was soothing to hear the babble of ongoing human activity, without the brain-snag of understanding some of it.

Then we picked up our stuff from the airbnb -- which, as I have not mentioned, was something of a cluttered disaster with no place to put our stuff or keep it separate from the hostess's, so at this point there was a bit of fighting down terror that we might have left something. And we decamped uneventfully to the airport, and thence to Boston.

Overall, that was really fun, and about the right length of trip for me. I'd do it slightly differently next time, like buying some eggs for American-style breakfasts at home in the mornings to avoid the "one big meal per day" dynamic. I would also wave my magic wand and remove the strange "push button to exit any domicile" buttons that exist there, because hello, fire codes! But we did quite well. It was friendly, we mostly didn't rush about too much, I didn't get sick, nobody wanted to look at the stupid Mona Lisa, and there was much sleeping and food and wine.

Comments

[silentq.livejournal.com]

I love being surrounded by conversations I can't hope to understand, Japan was very soothing for that. To the point where I was thrown for a loop when we ran into some English tourists on a subway and couldn't help eavesdropping. :-)
Glad you had a good trip!

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

Vacation should be about what YOU want, and sounds like you got it. :)