Reached the coast.
Have been bitten by every mosquito in country.
Two on my leg, one on my arm, one on my chest and FIVE on my face that look like huge zits.
Mosquitos are fuckers.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Day 5 in France
Back to airport to pick up rental car
Tres bien. Car will be ready in 30 minutes, monsieur! So we grab a soda to kill 30 mins then head up to rental floor
49 mins later Surrounded by 37 cars but none of them are ours. Ours is coming. Apparently from Germany. Customer Service agent is sitting in one of the rentals doing the suduko and actively ignoring us. And is rather put out when we ask for assistance. Sam is sitting on the ground doing his best Steve McQueen imitation bouncing a rock off the wall. I'm silently wishing it takes a bad bounce off the BMW next to him. Two other couples have come, wandered around the cars and left. Dude doesn't move. Car finally arrives. We drive 3 meters and are stuck behind the exit gate. Dude #2 can't get the gate lifted. Viva la France.
Tres bien. Car will be ready in 30 minutes, monsieur! So we grab a soda to kill 30 mins then head up to rental floor
49 mins later Surrounded by 37 cars but none of them are ours. Ours is coming. Apparently from Germany. Customer Service agent is sitting in one of the rentals doing the suduko and actively ignoring us. And is rather put out when we ask for assistance. Sam is sitting on the ground doing his best Steve McQueen imitation bouncing a rock off the wall. I'm silently wishing it takes a bad bounce off the BMW next to him. Two other couples have come, wandered around the cars and left. Dude doesn't move. Car finally arrives. We drive 3 meters and are stuck behind the exit gate. Dude #2 can't get the gate lifted. Viva la France.
Day 4 in France
Shopkeeper: Bon Jour
Me: Bon Jour. Coment se va?
Shopkeeper: french french french french french
Me: Yeah... that was really all I had. (big smile)
Me: Bon Jour. Coment se va?
Shopkeeper: french french french french french
Me: Yeah... that was really all I had. (big smile)
Day 3 in France
Our Ratatouille Moment on the Metro
John; Look, theres a mouse on the opposite platform!
Me; Are you sure its a mouse?
John; What else could it be?
Me; A cockroach
John; You think theres a cockroach that b....
pause
John; I'm pretty sure its a mouse. Lets go with mouse.
FYI; keyboards in France are not the same as keyboards in the US. who knew?
John; Look, theres a mouse on the opposite platform!
Me; Are you sure its a mouse?
John; What else could it be?
Me; A cockroach
John; You think theres a cockroach that b....
pause
John; I'm pretty sure its a mouse. Lets go with mouse.
FYI; keyboards in France are not the same as keyboards in the US. who knew?
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Second day in France
On the metro,
Crazy man yelling in French, "There's no difference between love and charity!" "There's no difference between the verb Protestant and the noun catholic!" "There's no difference between man and government!"
John, in French, "there's no difference between a man who drinks and a man who smells!"
Crazy man yelling in French, "There's no difference between love and charity!" "There's no difference between the verb Protestant and the noun catholic!" "There's no difference between man and government!"
John, in French, "there's no difference between a man who drinks and a man who smells!"
First day in France.
So we're having lunch at this little restaurant (I'd like to say it was a quaint little French cafe but it wasn't. It's was a pizza joint but we were tired and hungry and it was there.) and Sam needed to use the bathroom. He walked inside the restaurant and asked the waitress where it was. She answered in French but with universal hand signals so he was fine.
Me, "did you find it?"
Sam, "yeah, I went downstairs and found the door marked 'Homies'"
John, "that's Hommes, it means 'men'"
Sam, <shrug> "eh"
Me, "did you find it?"
Sam, "yeah, I went downstairs and found the door marked 'Homies'"
John, "that's Hommes, it means 'men'"
Sam, <shrug> "eh"
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