Last night in Paris! I am all packed up and ready to go in the morning. But first, the obligatory blog entry about my last few days!
Yesterday I definitely woke up after noon, with nothing whatsoever to do anyway. I played around on the computer, sent some emails, showered, and hung around until 18:30, when Maureen got tired of studying and decided it would be time for dinner. We walked up to Rue Mouffetard (definitely the coolest street in this arrondissement) and went to a little Italian place on a corner. It was super cute and the food was appropriately portioned, but the waitress was not incredibly nice and messed up our bill at the end of it all. C'était pas grave.
After dinner we completed the Italian illusion with gelato from down the street. They put it on the cone in the shape of a rose, which is pretty fantastic. They didn't have mint, so I got caramel and Nutella instead. I really do enjoy Nutella. I wonder if I can bring some back with me...
Maureen wanted to continue studying and I wanted to check out le Jardin du Luxembourg, so we parted ways and I made the 15 minute walk on part of the route I took Wednesday, when I'd passed the garden. It's apparently the largest public park in the 6th arrondissement, and people were everywhere in chairs and on benches. I wandered all throughout it, taking pictures of a giant gold head (Le Prophète; not anyone specific), the first version of the Statue of Liberty (a tiny version, with an American oak behind it as a memorial for September 11th), a version of Rome's Mouth of Truth, grass you can't lie on, and more. It was very calm and peaceful, and I actually sat down for half an hour and attempted to write. Though it pretty much failed, it was still quite fun, and I definitely plan on spending more time there next time I'm in the city.
I made it back for an earlier night than the one before, since this morning I had to wake up at 10:00. Maureen's final was from 10:15 until 10:30, and she planned on being back around 11:00 so we could go to the crêpe restaurant. While she made it back a little late, we still got there before 11:30. Maureen's roommates Noelle, Nikki and Kathy, plus their friend Laura, Maureen and I were the only ones in the restaurant, until an American family came in and sat down, but only after the mother had removed all of the knives from the table. We made our orders and got our drinks, and five minutes later the family walked out without saying anything to the waitress, who got pretty mad. She talked to us about it, and asked if that was normal in the US; we said no, not unless we hadn't gotten a table yet. Pretty ridiculous.
I got a crepe with strawberry ice cream, black cherries, whipped cream and pecans, and it was absolutely fantastic. The black cherries had been sitting in alcohol apparently, so they were a little strong, but it was still a delicious breakfast. I'm so excited for all the fun restaurants I know in Paris now! Maureen and I went back to the apartment for a few minutes afterward, to get ready for our long day in the city, before catching the bus to Centre Georges Pompidou, the modern art museum. We met Maureen's friend Kim in the plaza in front of it before heading in, since Kim was leaving for Greece this afternoon and Maureen leaves for home soon after Kim gets back. Though we plotted ways to get the European Union discount that adults from 18-25 receive (free tickets!), we ended up paying a reduced ticket price for the museums and exhibitions. I wish the US would do something where we get free museum tickets in Europe too! And do it in the next four years so I can enjoy it. Thanks, America.
The top floor had the Kandinsky exhibit I was so excited about, as well as a Calder exhibit. Kandinsky's works after 1911 are so much better than the ones beforehand, when he gave up trying to paint anything realistic and just decided to throw shapes, lines and color onto a canvas. I'm sure his artistic theories give rhyme and reason to his compositions and improvisations, but I cannot make any sense of them. My favorite is when the paintings were called Red Oval or Several Circles; why thank you, I had no idea what this was a painting of, and now I know.
Calder's wire sculptures were also great, with an entire circus and tons of sculpted people and animals. All of the figures were anatomically correct also; it made me laugh. The best were the sculptures of Heracles with the Nimean lion and Romulus and Remus with a wolf. The exhibit continued on the fourth level with old-fashioned looking toys, which would have been more amazing if they were moving like it seemed they could. They rest of that level was a huge exhibit called elles@centrepompidou, aka female artists and incredibly feminist setups. One of the first rooms was labeled "potentially offensive to certain viewers" and was full of sculptures of female genitalia and a few pornographic paintings and photographs. There were a few cool exhibits, including a room with woven mats hanging overhead casting shadows onto the floor, and a few strange ones, including a leather looking dress that had, when it was first displayed, been bleeding, raw meat. Sometimes I feel validated for being a vegetarian; today was one of those days.
The fourth level wiped us out, so we zipped through the fifth level of impressionist paintings, taking a little more time for Picasso and Matisse, before heading back to the first level (the second and third are a library). It had rained while we were inside, but thankfully cleared up, so we missed the worst. The fountain next to the Pompidou is one of my favorites, filled with strange looking sculptures that spit water, so we took a few pictures before walking to the area around Notre Dame for souvenir shopping. I made my close-to-final purchases for the trip, and we walked towards the Métro to the Longchamp store!
We arrived pretty quickly, but I was upset to realize that they were all out of the bag I wanted; they had the style I wanted in every color but orange, and orange bags in every style but mine. Maureen guessed they would have them at the Galleries Lafayettes, a huge department store that I had gone to on one of our last days in Paris during high school, so we walked the entire way there to see if they were out too. They were, in fact, not out, and I think I grabbed the last one of the bag I wanted! A successful trip for the only real souvenir I got myself in Paris. Thanks Granny <3
The Champs Elysses was a little farther than us at that point, but I only had one available Métro ticket left and that had to get us back to Maureen's apartment. We used her map to get us close, but at one point we walked in a circle before we finally got where we wanted to be. We took pictures of l'Arc de Triomphe from the middle of the street, thanks an island between crosswalks, then found the Métro so we could go back to Rue Mouffetard for a much needed dinner. We had not eaten since the crêpe restaurant; we were starving.
The little French restaurant had a great 14€ menu that we ordered from, which included an appetizer, entrée and dessert. I got chèvre chaud avec la salade, et saumon (salad with goat's cheese and salmon), while Maureen got soupe de l'oignon et steak-frites (french onion soup and steak with French fries). We both got Kir for a drink, though I knocked mine over after dropping bread into my salad and lost a quarter of it, and then we got chocolate mousse for dessert. Easily one of the better meals on my trip; I also enjoyed the linguini with clams and the amazing dessert wine in Rome.
After dinner we went to the grocery store to get popcorn, since we'd decided to watch a movie while I packed, and I got a French reusable grocery bag! It is orange (obviously) with a lady bug on it, aka adorable. We came back to the apartment and I started packing clothes while Maureen showered, then organized souvenirs in my backpack while we started watching Bride Wars. Funniest movie ever, but it makes me afraid to ever try to get married. I have plenty of room in my duffel bag and backpack, since I'm checking my duffel bag with a suitcase filled with Maureen's books, instead of carrying on my duffel bag with just my backpack. This means I can have a purse on the plane! Not that it's necessary; I packed light for two weeks.
Tomorrow I'm waking up at 9:00 to shower and make sure everything is set before we leave for the Métro at 10:00. I'm catching the RER (a train to the Charles de Gaulle) from Châtelet, which will take me straight to Terminal 2, where I catch American Airlines flight 147 to Logan and hope my ride is there on time. It'll be nice to have a direct flight this time! It will also be the longest day ever, since when I arrive I'll think it's 21:30 but it will really be 15:30 and I'll have the entire rest of the day. If I can make it to 22:00 or 23:00 before I sleep, I will consider it a success; I just hope I wake up early on Monday, since I have my first day at Channel 5 Boston at 11:00!
I can't believe I'm leaving. This trip has been too amazing. It will be nice to be back though, where I can get a normally-priced Starbucks and send text messages!
Time to sleep; early morning tomorrow!
Love,
Sam
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Paris: Part III
Bonjour de la Ville-Lumière! We are back in Paris and my trip is slowly winding down. I've been doing pretty much everything I planned on, so hopefully for the next two days it will be the same!
Tuesday night when we landed at Beauvais it was after 22:30, so by the time the bus shuttle from the airport to Paris it was almost midnight. We didn't want to risk missing the Métro, and didn't want to take an hour to get home, so we caught a cab instead. It was awesome; we drove right down le Champs Elysses and saw l'Arc de Triomphe, la Tour Eiffel, Musée d'Orsay, and Notre Dame all in about a ten minute period. Pretty fantastic.
Yesterday morning was very slow; I didn't wake up until noon and was able to shower and do laundry before I went out into the city for my own adventure. Maureen had to study, so I Google-mapped my route and set out for an afternoon of sight-seeing and picture-taking. I started with Saint-Sulpice, and got moderately turned around on the way there, which led me to see the Pantheon; not too bad. I then went looking for a café that someone I work with had recommended, and got turned around again; that led me to find le Theatre Odéon, and made it easier to find the café, so I wouldn't say that was terrible either.
From there it was on to the Tuilieries, which was awesome to walk around. A lot of the statues were of figures from Greek mythology, which I took an entire class on in Spring 2008. It was fun to guess what the statues were before reading the plaques. Some random guy tried to talk to me, so I pretended I didn't understand French and headed back to the Louvre to take pictures of the pyramid. I went out on the wrong side and had to walk back around to cross the Seine again, since Saint-Chapelle and Notre Dame are both on l'Isle de la Cité. It was already 18:00 by this point, so I had to book it back for dinner, but I ended up getting lost somewhere between Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Effective use of bus maps got me back to Maureen's by 19:00, only half an hour late. She had made rice and vegetables, so we ate and got ready to go out for the last part of our evening: le Louvre!
Since the Louvre is discounted and open late on Wednesdays and Fridays, we were able to go for almost three hours and see the Mona Lisa (La Joconde is super tiny, but at least this time I was able to get closer than I was four years ago), the Venus de Milo, Napoleon III's apartments and various other exhibits. We made it into all of the sections of the museum (Denon, Sully, Richelieu) even if we didn't see everything. Definitely a good second visit.
Today we woke up with pancakes (aka amazing) and then set out for Musée d'Orsay, my favorite museum in Paris. It used to be a train station, so it's strangely organized, but we started at the top and made our way down. In the front of the museum are a lot of impressionist paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Degas...etc, and there are random exhibits everywhere you turn. As you walk through the hallway on level three, there's an exhibit on shadowbox theater, and on level two there are seven or eight of the same bust, in various stages of creation, to show how sculptures are made. I guess you have to make do with the space you have when your building was originally a traffic center.
On each side of the museum are galleries of furniture, sculptures, and even more paintings, including the exhibit "Voir Italie et Mourir." We have no idea why there is an exhibit called "See Italy and Die," but it was pretty fitting considering our recent trip. There were a few drawings of places we'd seen, including the Pantheon in Rome and Piazza San Marco in Venice; very cool. We also went to the very end of the museum's main level and went up this random platform that allows you to look over the entire main entrance and get a good view of the clock that I love so much. It's really strange how I love cool looking clocks, but hate being early...
I had to make it back to the apartment by 16:00 to talk to Shannon, who is in Hong Kong, about the UGBC Comm budget, which we then submitted a full 24 hours early. Dinner was pasta at 18:00 so we could get to la Tour Eiffel and climb to the top! We took the equivalent of the B line for the Métro, which I think is awesome because it's called Étoile-Nation (Star Nation! But really it just runs from Étoile station to Nation station...say that five times fast) and ended up very close to the tower. The line was huge if we wanted to take the elevator all the way up, so for the second time in my life I climbed the 700 stairs to the second level before taking the mandatory elevator to la sommet. At least this time I wasn't conducting a physics experiment.
At the top you can get a 10€ glass of champagne, but we opted to just take pictures from every angle imaginable. I accidentally blocked someone's picture, but that was the most embarrassing thing that happened at the top of me; it seemed like someone had gotten sick before we got there, so at least I didn't have that problem. The observation deck is one level above a walled in room with distances from la Tour Eiffel to various countries, including two numbers for the US! Boston was not there, but New York/Washington were, as was Los Angeles! This amused me.
We rode the elevator all the way down and then walked down the Champs de Mars to take pictures of ourselves jumping in front of the tower. They came out well enough, just very dark, and we effectively made fools of ourselves in front of a lot of people. There's a cool glass monument at the end with "peace" covering it in many languages; reminds me of the Holocaust Memorial at Government Center. We couldn't find cheap crêpes anywhere, so we took the Métro to Jussieu and walked down Rue Mouffetard to go back to the awesome Greek crêpe place for des crêpes sucrées! I got one with bananas and Nutella; so delicious. I wish the US had more crêpe places.
I just got back and will probably be up all night editing pictures and playing games. Tomorrow we don't have many plans, so I can wake up super late and not feel bad. Maureen wants to go to her Italian place on Rue Mouffetard for dinner, and I want to wander through the Luxembourg garden for a bit, so that should be it for the day. Saturday I'm going with Maureen and her roommates to a sit-down restaurant that serves crêpes, and apparently they are amazing with ice cream and other delicious things. Then we're going to the Centre Pompidou, l'Arc de Triomphe, and Notre Dame for souvenir shopping before dinner at a French restaurant. I have to pack, which I'm not looking forward to, and then my flight is at 13:30 on Sunday! I can't believe I only have two days left.
Only a few more posts to go! Until then,
Sam
Tuesday night when we landed at Beauvais it was after 22:30, so by the time the bus shuttle from the airport to Paris it was almost midnight. We didn't want to risk missing the Métro, and didn't want to take an hour to get home, so we caught a cab instead. It was awesome; we drove right down le Champs Elysses and saw l'Arc de Triomphe, la Tour Eiffel, Musée d'Orsay, and Notre Dame all in about a ten minute period. Pretty fantastic.
Yesterday morning was very slow; I didn't wake up until noon and was able to shower and do laundry before I went out into the city for my own adventure. Maureen had to study, so I Google-mapped my route and set out for an afternoon of sight-seeing and picture-taking. I started with Saint-Sulpice, and got moderately turned around on the way there, which led me to see the Pantheon; not too bad. I then went looking for a café that someone I work with had recommended, and got turned around again; that led me to find le Theatre Odéon, and made it easier to find the café, so I wouldn't say that was terrible either.
From there it was on to the Tuilieries, which was awesome to walk around. A lot of the statues were of figures from Greek mythology, which I took an entire class on in Spring 2008. It was fun to guess what the statues were before reading the plaques. Some random guy tried to talk to me, so I pretended I didn't understand French and headed back to the Louvre to take pictures of the pyramid. I went out on the wrong side and had to walk back around to cross the Seine again, since Saint-Chapelle and Notre Dame are both on l'Isle de la Cité. It was already 18:00 by this point, so I had to book it back for dinner, but I ended up getting lost somewhere between Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Effective use of bus maps got me back to Maureen's by 19:00, only half an hour late. She had made rice and vegetables, so we ate and got ready to go out for the last part of our evening: le Louvre!
Since the Louvre is discounted and open late on Wednesdays and Fridays, we were able to go for almost three hours and see the Mona Lisa (La Joconde is super tiny, but at least this time I was able to get closer than I was four years ago), the Venus de Milo, Napoleon III's apartments and various other exhibits. We made it into all of the sections of the museum (Denon, Sully, Richelieu) even if we didn't see everything. Definitely a good second visit.
Today we woke up with pancakes (aka amazing) and then set out for Musée d'Orsay, my favorite museum in Paris. It used to be a train station, so it's strangely organized, but we started at the top and made our way down. In the front of the museum are a lot of impressionist paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Degas...etc, and there are random exhibits everywhere you turn. As you walk through the hallway on level three, there's an exhibit on shadowbox theater, and on level two there are seven or eight of the same bust, in various stages of creation, to show how sculptures are made. I guess you have to make do with the space you have when your building was originally a traffic center.
On each side of the museum are galleries of furniture, sculptures, and even more paintings, including the exhibit "Voir Italie et Mourir." We have no idea why there is an exhibit called "See Italy and Die," but it was pretty fitting considering our recent trip. There were a few drawings of places we'd seen, including the Pantheon in Rome and Piazza San Marco in Venice; very cool. We also went to the very end of the museum's main level and went up this random platform that allows you to look over the entire main entrance and get a good view of the clock that I love so much. It's really strange how I love cool looking clocks, but hate being early...
I had to make it back to the apartment by 16:00 to talk to Shannon, who is in Hong Kong, about the UGBC Comm budget, which we then submitted a full 24 hours early. Dinner was pasta at 18:00 so we could get to la Tour Eiffel and climb to the top! We took the equivalent of the B line for the Métro, which I think is awesome because it's called Étoile-Nation (Star Nation! But really it just runs from Étoile station to Nation station...say that five times fast) and ended up very close to the tower. The line was huge if we wanted to take the elevator all the way up, so for the second time in my life I climbed the 700 stairs to the second level before taking the mandatory elevator to la sommet. At least this time I wasn't conducting a physics experiment.
At the top you can get a 10€ glass of champagne, but we opted to just take pictures from every angle imaginable. I accidentally blocked someone's picture, but that was the most embarrassing thing that happened at the top of me; it seemed like someone had gotten sick before we got there, so at least I didn't have that problem. The observation deck is one level above a walled in room with distances from la Tour Eiffel to various countries, including two numbers for the US! Boston was not there, but New York/Washington were, as was Los Angeles! This amused me.
We rode the elevator all the way down and then walked down the Champs de Mars to take pictures of ourselves jumping in front of the tower. They came out well enough, just very dark, and we effectively made fools of ourselves in front of a lot of people. There's a cool glass monument at the end with "peace" covering it in many languages; reminds me of the Holocaust Memorial at Government Center. We couldn't find cheap crêpes anywhere, so we took the Métro to Jussieu and walked down Rue Mouffetard to go back to the awesome Greek crêpe place for des crêpes sucrées! I got one with bananas and Nutella; so delicious. I wish the US had more crêpe places.
I just got back and will probably be up all night editing pictures and playing games. Tomorrow we don't have many plans, so I can wake up super late and not feel bad. Maureen wants to go to her Italian place on Rue Mouffetard for dinner, and I want to wander through the Luxembourg garden for a bit, so that should be it for the day. Saturday I'm going with Maureen and her roommates to a sit-down restaurant that serves crêpes, and apparently they are amazing with ice cream and other delicious things. Then we're going to the Centre Pompidou, l'Arc de Triomphe, and Notre Dame for souvenir shopping before dinner at a French restaurant. I have to pack, which I'm not looking forward to, and then my flight is at 13:30 on Sunday! I can't believe I only have two days left.
Only a few more posts to go! Until then,
Sam
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Paris: Part II
Today has been another slow day before I leave this country for a warmer, less rainy destination. Fun fact: it has rained, more or less, every day since I have arrived in Europe. From my overnight connection in London, which required an umbrella; to my first exploration after getting off the plane, which included a lot of ducking under awnings; to today, which absolutely poured for about an hour; I clearly brought terrible weather to Europe.
This morning I was able to sleep in a bit, since Maureen had a fully French class and didn't think I'd be interested in it, so she came back around noon and woke me up. After I got ready for the day, we went to a supermarché to get pizza to cook for lunch. Remind me to go back there and buy a super cute, super cheap orange shopping bag with a lady bug on it. After coming back to make our lunch, we headed to a mall so Maureen could get a book for our trip au Italie. The first bookstore, similar to an FYE, was expensive, but had hilariously named French versions of American shows; House M.D. becomes Dr. House, which isn't as cool, and One Tree Hill becomes Les Frères Scott (The Brothers Scott). Oh well.
The second bookstore we went to, directly across from the first, was more like a Waldenbooks. Apparently Twilight is just as popular here, but the nuances of titles that deal with the phases of moon must not go over well, since they were renamed as "Fascination" and "Révelation" and the like. Patty said it best: "I like that Twilight has become Fascination...it makes Edward's stalkerish behavior sound even creepier." True statement.
Since nothing was found at either bookstore, we left the mall and headed back to Maureen's apartment to grab her camera before catching a bus near l'Isle de la Cité. We crossed the Seine and I realized we must be close to Notre Dame de Paris, when I looked to my right and it was RIGHT THERE. I have no idea how I missed a giant church prior to that moment, but ok. The bookstore we went to was AWESOME. It had all types of books, new and used, and it was eclectic looking with shelves everywhere and books stacked on every surface. I have a few titles that I'm going to have to look up when I get back to Boston; I must hit up the Public Library and get a card!
Our entire plan for the day had been to hit up la Maison Europeéne de la Photographie, which is free on Wednesdays. We had a bit of time to spare, so we first found a department store that sells Longchamps so I could check the price of a bag I want to buy, given my budget holds up. Having killed time, we walked back to the museum. Maureen had done a presentation on Henri Cartier-Bresson, who had an exhibit there, so we checked it out. My favorite of the 4 or 5 exhibits was definitely Gérard Uféras, who took photos of dancers backstage at various operas and ballets. I plan to Google image search for a few of them and potentially turn them into posters for next year.
For dinner we went to a place called Breakfast in America, which is a little diner in Paris where I could get pancakes for dinner. I don't know what is more exciting: having had them earlier today, or knowing I can have the rest for breakfast tomorrow! The people in the diner were a mix of British girls who knew the waitresses and French couples who clearly like cheeseburgers. It was a great dinner, but then we had to run back to the Métro in the rain, which was starting to really come down after having drizzled all day. By the time we got back to Maureen's apartment, it was completely pouring.
We've since spent the rest of the night in, so Maureen could Skype with her mom and I could attend to more pictures. Tomorrow will be an early day, since Maureen has two classes and I'm going to go to both of them. One is in English and her classmates are getting hot drinks beforehand, meaning a 09:30 departure time, and the other is a French language class and will end in a wine and cheese party, évidemment. We then have to go to the post office so I can send the postcards I'm writing, and then pack for Italy! This may include laundry and eating in, but perhaps other things as well. Then it's bed at 23:00 so we can wake up at 05:00 and catch the bus to Beauvais for our flight to Rome! I am so ready to channel Robert Langdon and hit up the Path of Illumination (I'm only half kidding).
Bonne nuit à tous!
Sam
This morning I was able to sleep in a bit, since Maureen had a fully French class and didn't think I'd be interested in it, so she came back around noon and woke me up. After I got ready for the day, we went to a supermarché to get pizza to cook for lunch. Remind me to go back there and buy a super cute, super cheap orange shopping bag with a lady bug on it. After coming back to make our lunch, we headed to a mall so Maureen could get a book for our trip au Italie. The first bookstore, similar to an FYE, was expensive, but had hilariously named French versions of American shows; House M.D. becomes Dr. House, which isn't as cool, and One Tree Hill becomes Les Frères Scott (The Brothers Scott). Oh well.
The second bookstore we went to, directly across from the first, was more like a Waldenbooks. Apparently Twilight is just as popular here, but the nuances of titles that deal with the phases of moon must not go over well, since they were renamed as "Fascination" and "Révelation" and the like. Patty said it best: "I like that Twilight has become Fascination...it makes Edward's stalkerish behavior sound even creepier." True statement.
Since nothing was found at either bookstore, we left the mall and headed back to Maureen's apartment to grab her camera before catching a bus near l'Isle de la Cité. We crossed the Seine and I realized we must be close to Notre Dame de Paris, when I looked to my right and it was RIGHT THERE. I have no idea how I missed a giant church prior to that moment, but ok. The bookstore we went to was AWESOME. It had all types of books, new and used, and it was eclectic looking with shelves everywhere and books stacked on every surface. I have a few titles that I'm going to have to look up when I get back to Boston; I must hit up the Public Library and get a card!
Our entire plan for the day had been to hit up la Maison Europeéne de la Photographie, which is free on Wednesdays. We had a bit of time to spare, so we first found a department store that sells Longchamps so I could check the price of a bag I want to buy, given my budget holds up. Having killed time, we walked back to the museum. Maureen had done a presentation on Henri Cartier-Bresson, who had an exhibit there, so we checked it out. My favorite of the 4 or 5 exhibits was definitely Gérard Uféras, who took photos of dancers backstage at various operas and ballets. I plan to Google image search for a few of them and potentially turn them into posters for next year.
For dinner we went to a place called Breakfast in America, which is a little diner in Paris where I could get pancakes for dinner. I don't know what is more exciting: having had them earlier today, or knowing I can have the rest for breakfast tomorrow! The people in the diner were a mix of British girls who knew the waitresses and French couples who clearly like cheeseburgers. It was a great dinner, but then we had to run back to the Métro in the rain, which was starting to really come down after having drizzled all day. By the time we got back to Maureen's apartment, it was completely pouring.
We've since spent the rest of the night in, so Maureen could Skype with her mom and I could attend to more pictures. Tomorrow will be an early day, since Maureen has two classes and I'm going to go to both of them. One is in English and her classmates are getting hot drinks beforehand, meaning a 09:30 departure time, and the other is a French language class and will end in a wine and cheese party, évidemment. We then have to go to the post office so I can send the postcards I'm writing, and then pack for Italy! This may include laundry and eating in, but perhaps other things as well. Then it's bed at 23:00 so we can wake up at 05:00 and catch the bus to Beauvais for our flight to Rome! I am so ready to channel Robert Langdon and hit up the Path of Illumination (I'm only half kidding).
Bonne nuit à tous!
Sam
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