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    • Day 2

      Foie gras

      December 28, 2022 in France ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

      We flew in business class (Delta points cashed in wooo) on Air France from New York to Paris overnight. I love business class. You can lie down. There are frequent glasses of decent French wines handed to you. And the entree includes foie gras.

      I don’t want to get into how foie gras is made. That’s extremely cruel and you can read about how terrible it is on PETA’s website. But the culinary art of stuffing ducks and geese with food to enlarge their liver and eat that as a delicacy is actually thousands of years old. As early as 2500 BC, the ancient Egyptians learned that many birds could be fattened through forced overfeeding and began this practice.

      Anyways I digress. I happily ate the foie gras and sipped my Champagne and managed to get an hour of real sleep.

      That flight ended many hours ago but I am still experiencing the foie gras. It is sitting in my stomach like a rock. Like a little passenger who is there reminding me of how stupid I was to eat it.

      Now we are preparing to take off to Delhi, and I am worried about what curry and foie gras might be like together in my stomach and how that is going to feel in 12 hours.

      They have it on the menu on this flight but I am going to pass this time. Lesson learned.
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    • Day 11

      Still in Paris lockdown

      May 23, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌧 63 °F

      Got a call this morning saying they will be here tomorrow morning between 8:00am and 9:00am to do a throat swab. Supposedly within an hour or so we should have the verdict. Dum de de dum…Our immediate future hangs on the tip of a Q-tip. I am still battling my sinus infection but pressure and pain has lessened but still going through a box of tissues and taking some interesting cough syrup they bought for me. We should have been visiting Versailles today. Boo hoo. But as it turns out being sick has changed my perspective on my trip. Except for 2007 when I had a collapsed vertebra, I have always been very healthy during all my travels. So I shan’t weep and realize how blessed I’ve been and continue to be and look forward to going home and getting well.
      I decided to explore my view and discovered a nice little shrub rose bush outside my window. I’ve been watching the BBC’s coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show so even though this little bush wouldn’t make it into that august event, it is appreciated by me. So until tomorrow, prisoner 174 (room number) signing off.
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    • Day 10

      Boring room

      May 22, 2022 in France ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F

      So here we are in our second day of isolation in the most boring room in Paris. There is literally a village of modern hotels built near the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Two things make it bearable, the BBC which is the only English language game in town and the fact that I’m so miserable with this sinus infection that rest is all I want to do. I spoke with a Viking representative this afternoon and to boil down all that she said is that we are in the Bastille until they say otherwise. So we wait until Tuesday to be tested again to learn our fate. Joseph is hanging in there reading mostly and trying not to say that his wife is an idiot for getting Covid. If he tests negative on Tuesday and I don’t he will head home. I truly hope he doesn’t get this worthless omicron. I received many concerning messages and thank you all. Please keep us in your prayers and I’ll keep you posted.Read more

    • Day 1

      Spontan in Paris aufgekreuzt

      March 25 in France ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      Endlich in Paris angekommen. Ein weiterer Glücksfall ist eingetreten - Anfangs haben wir keinen Platz am Fenster bekommen, doch niemand ist erschienen. Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter 🤫.

      Der Flug nach Paris mit seinen 1,5 Stunden war schnell passé (erstmalige praktische Anwendung meines prekären Französischs).

      Jetzt heißt es Abwarten und dann 13,5 Stunden nach Tokio fliegen.
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    • Day 2

      Amsterdam - Paris

      April 25, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

      Yesterday we traveld from Amsterdam Schiphol toward Paris airport.

      We stayed at the Mercure hotel in the airport where at least I (Nina) passed out straight..😴

      The alarm went off way to fast for our early breakfast and transfer back to the terminal. In Paris the airport is so big you need metro/trains to get to the right terminal/gate etc. At least we are traveling sky priority so it saved us a lot of time in both airports and less stress.

      Now we are waiting for the plane to take off, 8 hour flight to Havana. ✈️🌞
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    • Day 61

      63ème étape ~ Paris (jour 3)

      October 2, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

      Nous avons passé la journée au parc Astérix !
      La pluie nous a accompagné une petite partie de la journée mais nous avons quand même eu du beau temps ☀️
      Nous avons assisté à un spectacle de plongeons, nous avons fait quasiment toutes les attractions. 🎢Read more

    • Day 14

      24776 Schritte in 12 Stunden

      July 28, 2022 in France ⋅ 🌙 23 °C

      Kurz nach neun aus dem Haus und wieder ins Haus zurück... Dazwischen 12 Stunden Programm mit viiiiiel zu sehen und zu laufen...
      Wir starten mit dem Zug zum Gare Du Nord und von da aus mit der Metro gen L'Arc de Triomphe... Gucken, staunen und dann schön die Champs Élysées entlangbummeln. Und ja, wir mussten auch mal in einen kunterbunten, kitschigen und völlig überteuerten Souvenirshop 😂 Gänzlich überfordert waren wir im Disney Store und völlig ungläubig bei einem Store, vor dem ohne Ende Leute anstanden, aber uns der Name so gar nix sagte: Stranger Things... Okay, wir outen uns als Serienunwissende 😅 Offensichtlich gab es dort Fanartikel der Netflix-Serie... Wir fahren weiter mit dem Bus am Place de la Concorde vorbei und laufen dahin zurück, bummeln durch den Jardin Tuileries und landen dabei auch auf einer Art Rummel mit gesalzenen Preisen. Dementsprechend wenig ist los. Wir machen im Schatten ein Päuschen und beobachten Leute... Da kriegt man in Paris schon einiges geboten 😂 Danach begeben wir uns über den Nebeneingang Carrousel zum Louvre-Eingang - total unproblematisch und ohne Schlangestehen... Aber dann! Solche Menschenmengen in einem Museum habe ich zuletzt in Kairo im Ägyptischen Museum gesehen!!! Zudem hat man echt Schwierigkeiten sich zu orientieren... Wahnsinn! Ja, die Mona Lisa mussten wir uns auch anschauen, wir haben jedoch darauf verzichtet uns in die Schlange direkt vor dem Bild zu stellen, um einmal direkt davor zu stehen... Dann gucken wir uns Napoleons Apartment an, Schmuckstücke vom Sonnenkönig, ein wenig ägyptische Ausgrabungsstücke und noch die Reste des mittelalterlichen Schlosses und und und... Und laufen gefühlt ständig Zickzack... Dazu oft in recht stickiger Luft...
      Wir gehen anschließend nochmal in den Museumsshop und starten dann auch bald schon mit der Metro gen Montmartre. An der Bushaltestelle, an der wir im Anschluss aussteigen, laden Tische und gute Laune in ein Bistro ein, daher lassen wir uns dort nieder und genießen erstmal Abendessen... Gestärkt erklimmen wir den Hügel zur Sacre Coeur... Welch Ausblick heute bei klarer Sicht auf die Stadt! Einfach schön! Wir lassen das Treiben dort auf uns wirken, lauschen den Musikern und verweilen... Dann machen wir uns mit der Standseilbahn auf den Rückweg. Unser Zweitagesticket spinnt jetzt ab und an und lässt abwechselnd mal Thomas, mal mich nicht mehr durch, aber letztlich bekommen wir es immer irgendwie gelöst und sind nach neun wieder zurück in der Ferienwohnung. Kaputt, mit über 24000 Schritten, aber begeistert von vielen schönen Eindrücken...
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    • Day 3

      Bonjour!

      June 4, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 55 °F

      I appear to have run into a character limit in the middle of the night post last night. That limit may now be gone.

      It’s our first morning in France, with a very traditional French breakfast.

      Good morning to all and thank you for following us. I had been attempting to follow-up on each and every follow and message—but that has quickly become too much! So many kind followers and so many wonderful comments and likes! Thank you all and forgive me if I don’t respond to everything.

      Had some Internet issues yesterday but those should be resolved now. (Had my VPN set to prefer Seattle, WA which was conflicting with local connections! Doh on me!)
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    • Day 33

      Correction

      July 4, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F

      In my last post I said that Sean officially had his worst meal of the Camino. Boy did I misunderstand!

      He enjoyed last night’s dinner very much—a soup-like mix of green beans and Gorgonzola beans (correction: garbanzo!) with bread for sopping it up.

      His worst meal was technically before our Camino even started, back on Orthez, France where he ordered a hamburger and got some sort of Frankenstein’s monster burger on a bun that didn’t deserve to be called a bun!

      He has especially enjoyed the soups with bread for sopping up—much like his Grandpa C. would have. (We haven’t seen “tugboat stew” on any of the menus, or maybe we have and just didn’t translate it properly!)

      Happy 4th of July everyone!
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