To Nantes
France on September 15, 2008 at 3:33 am
There's about seven train stations in Paris and I walked to the one that has trains to Nantes. I knew it's general area but I zigzagged for a long while.
Once I got a ticket I took the straightest road I could see and it leads back to the Louvre so I should be able to find it again.
Didn't go in Louvre just sat in one of it's courtyards to take a break and talk to Richie. Photo is of courtyard.
I thought about going to this famous cemetery, but who visits cemeteries? Only names I was familiar with were Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde.
Chose Nantes because I can play a song on the ukulele of the same name. It's suppose to be really nice though, it does have a song about it.
So basically all I did yesterday was walk a bit then ly down a lot and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The proper response to "Do you speak English?" is always "no hablo ingles." I've said yes a few times because it's a knee jerk reaction, but they are always looking for money.
If you ask someone if they speak English the response is almost always "a little" accompanied by their hand demonstrating what a little looks like.
Also stopped to have a drink in a park. There were people with clipboards cruising around but I think this guy legitimately wanted signatures.
I've thought about the clipboard thing, it's a poor choice people avoid people with clipboards because you know they want your signature. And no one likes signing anything they ultimately don't understand unless there's a promise of large sums of money attached.
They might do better with something enticing like candy.
I know, I know, you wouldn't come to my work and tell me how to do my job…