Tuesday May 12
Arrived in Paris safe after n Air France flight without any incidents and the great service… Which is the airline still offering free champagne and wine for dinner in the economy coach class? Which airline has stewards and stewardesses greeting you with a smile, and helping you to load your cabin luggage in the overhead bins? Air France… with Gallic flair!
So happy to find Paris again, and our apartment on the Rue Eugene Delacroix… “Puy d’Amour” as we had left it… It had been more than one year for me… since March of 2009, just before our home fire in Nashua…
Our regular taxi was there to pick us at the airport and the conversation immediately ranged from judo to soccer, and we discussed the relative chances of France, Portugal and the US to reach the final of the World Cup… Interestingly, our driver went to South Africa two years ago and related some of the unexpected things he saw while there… Great food and wine, Johannesburg as a city bigger than Paris, a big country where everything grows…
By the way, driving into Paris and seeing the 1998 World Cup Stadium, Stade de France, I noticed that France is a candidate country for the Euro Cup in 2016. More soccer thrills in the future!
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