Post by geordy on Mar 10, 2012 8:22:06 GMT -5
Title is appropriate...frolics are almost over...
wake up to another glorious day..natch..I'm leaving
Last PD...really enjoyed the breakfasts esp. when the weather was bad...but one ..at least this one ..tends to eat too much! Cafe au lait and a croissant at a cafe is gentler on the waistline!
Last vin and views and off to CDG......always seems like I was just going in the opposite direction...
Unless one is travel ling with only carryons..it seems we do half the work for the airline..checking in online, printing our boarding passes and then still have to wait in the damned line to get bag weighed and tagged!! And there is still someone with "problems" ahead in the line!
After a last drink,Heineken(!), part from S/O before security...no scan here. Then near gate chat with young woman from NY..she's connecting from a long weekend trip to Israel..when I say that is a long trip for a weekend she says she was there for a college friend's wedding..the friend went there Junior yr., fell in love, and now wed. Reminds me of someone......
777, watched 3 french films. My "Intelligent Pocket" which I purchased at BHV a couple of trips ago, and some of you have seen! , is now a featured item in Air France in flight duty free!
Called for a Go van from JFK. Said 20 mins...on time. Most of van is taken up by French family..I'm in passenger front seat. It is almost 8PM and as we approach 59th St bridge...there it is in all its glory..that NYC skyline! French are "oh la la ing!" and "C'est Magnifique ing" and flash bulbs are going off like crazy!!(let us not blind the driver !)
Brought tears to my eyes....okay not the first time this day ..but this time out of joy and pride in MY City....yes it is MAGNIFIQUE!!!!
And now...since it seems EVERYONE is going to Paris soon ..I pass the baton. I hope you will report here on your travels and help assuage my PPD!
wake up to another glorious day..natch..I'm leaving
Last PD...really enjoyed the breakfasts esp. when the weather was bad...but one ..at least this one ..tends to eat too much! Cafe au lait and a croissant at a cafe is gentler on the waistline!
Last vin and views and off to CDG......always seems like I was just going in the opposite direction...
Unless one is travel ling with only carryons..it seems we do half the work for the airline..checking in online, printing our boarding passes and then still have to wait in the damned line to get bag weighed and tagged!! And there is still someone with "problems" ahead in the line!
After a last drink,Heineken(!), part from S/O before security...no scan here. Then near gate chat with young woman from NY..she's connecting from a long weekend trip to Israel..when I say that is a long trip for a weekend she says she was there for a college friend's wedding..the friend went there Junior yr., fell in love, and now wed. Reminds me of someone......
777, watched 3 french films. My "Intelligent Pocket" which I purchased at BHV a couple of trips ago, and some of you have seen! , is now a featured item in Air France in flight duty free!
Called for a Go van from JFK. Said 20 mins...on time. Most of van is taken up by French family..I'm in passenger front seat. It is almost 8PM and as we approach 59th St bridge...there it is in all its glory..that NYC skyline! French are "oh la la ing!" and "C'est Magnifique ing" and flash bulbs are going off like crazy!!(let us not blind the driver !)
Brought tears to my eyes....okay not the first time this day ..but this time out of joy and pride in MY City....yes it is MAGNIFIQUE!!!!
And now...since it seems EVERYONE is going to Paris soon ..I pass the baton. I hope you will report here on your travels and help assuage my PPD!