Paris is for lovers...

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

I wrote:
> > ...and the rest of us can go hang, I guess.  :)

Amy wrote: 
> LOL!  Don't take this wrong, but your rotten trip gave *me* a great 
> deal of pleasure.  It's sad but true that listening to horror 
travel 
> stories is usually way more fun than looking at people's lovely 
slides 
> and hearing about what a good time they had.

:::giggling:::  It is, isn't it?  It also makes for great 
storytelling, better than the "Oh, it was SO wonderful" rubbing-it-in-
that-I-went-and-you-didn't variety... and I love to tell stories... 
so all's well that ends well.  Just not when you're going through it, 
alternating between disgust, fatigue, and fright!

It wasn't just me, either.  I just came in from dinner.  NONE of the 
15 people from our program who traveled to Paris in various small 
groups this week plan to visit again any time soon.  (One girl who I 
sat next to at dinner said some of the kids actually threw those 
fireworks at her feet.)  Which is sad, really.  There ought to be a 
travel advisory re: Bastille weekend.

Jenny, it wasn't that friend and her false claims/no sense of 
direction that ruined it... it was the atmosphere itself.  It was 
total chaos.  I've never been in a riot before, but when the police 
all left (in long caravans of trucks and vans), I was frightened.  
Especially seeing a taxi stop after an eternity of waiting, and then 
seeing people actually *fight* to get into it... or offer strange 
bribes...

Like I said, will visit again, but when I have more money, more time, 
and with a guy who speaks fluent French.  Otherwise, I don't think I 
should.

Amy, now that you've brought it up, you MUST tell your London horror 
story.  As far as India and Nepal are concerned, I think I need to 
develop a thicker skin and a higher resistance to maladies than I 
have now.  ;-)

--Eb (still under the weather, still attempting to get a certain vile 
stench out of her nostrils)