Paris is for lovers...

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Ebony AKA AngieJ" <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> 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)