When is a line not a line?
... when you are in france! Now I am not getting all philosophical on you, during our travels,Hilary and I found that the concept of line is clearly not universal! i am only going to site one of the thousand examples that demonstrates this due to time (my plane should be boarding soon,but I have not seen the gate posted yet, so why not blog!) So, I am not sure if i mentioned it,but it was unbearable hot most of our trip... in the 90s/30s depending on your location... and so we decided to walk from the louvre to the l'arch de triumph(you are so jealous right now aren't you randy?)which on the map doesn't seem daunting... but the map doesn't take into account the heat... so we stopped for ice cream on the way... and they have these little fire hydrant like stops that you can pump to get water and rinse the pools of sweat off your body... so Hilary and I took full advantage of these. Anyway, there was a man in front of us, so we were waiting patiently, the man, me, Hilary and another man behind her. So the man in front of me finished and all of a sudden this new man swoops in front of me and the people behind me... he starts to get water and then 12 members of his family crowd in as well... it was truly like when a vulture finds a carcass and the rest of the vutlures swoop in.. Hil and i were baffled... and the guy behind us was extremely annoyed as well... the funny part is that continually we were surprise by this, in the Louvre to see the mona lisa, in the line for the eiffel tower (which I might blog about later.. it made me laugh), in the bathroom at mc donalds... actually any place that we stood in line we probably have a story about this... yet every time... surprised! Anyway.. i will post pictures when i returnn to belfast... We had an amazing time, and I will try my best to post some about where we were... the scary guys, and stupid things that i did that you will probably find commical... Sadly i leave Germany on Monday to return to Belfast.. for a short week, adn then back home... crazy.
posted by Stephanie at 2:19 PM
4 Comments:
I have to second the notion that the trip was amazing. The French people are so extremely kind and helpful unlike the stereotype they somehow gain. The lines! Wow, the one example Steph gave was a great one, but the McDonalds one and the Eiffel Tour one are also crazy. I'll let you read about them on her blog later. We really did give people the benefit of the doubt. It was incredible the number of times a day we looked at each other and went, "Can you believe that just happened?"
--Hil
yes, i am incredibly jealous of you right now, steph. but that's okay. hopefully we can get together soon or something once you're back stateside.
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