Andy – Blog

Well, I don’t know much about Paris yet either, I got off a plane, walked through a big airport, found a train station,  found a machine that sold me some kind of ticket, went through a crazy tick-spitting machine, got on a train, some nice lady told me the other train was better, got off the train, got on another train, got off the train at gare du nord(the first place the train stopped, thank you Nice Lady!), followed the sign through crazy train station to the metro, went through more crazy ticket machines, got on metro, got off the metro, walk out of the station, down the avenue, missed my street, turned around, found my street, found hostel, checked in, slept. Thank God.

I avoided going to find dinner last night because I really didn’t have the energy to work out how to get food, pay for it, not spend a fortune, that kind of stuff, anyway I figured I’d eaten enough in the past 2 days. Thank you Korean air. Breakfast was on the house this morning, so I haven’t actually spent any money since I left NZ, except for the hostel, and for this Internet.

Today I have to work out how to get to Gare De Lyon, how to actually buy something like lunch from, how to use the TGV. Hopefully the final result is that I arrive in Taize tonight.In hindsight, it wouldn’t have been a bad idea to have planed to have an extra night in Paris, to get used to the fact I’m further from my known world then ever before.

-Paris. Local time: 8:50am, Sunday 13th