*********** FRANCE - PARIS*************** The night train was a 12 hour trip with carriages that had 6 rooms: 3 for the men, 3 for the ladies. In each carriage was 4 pull down bunks, 2 on each side, one above the other. My room was next door to Lynette's and only had the one Frenchman in it who didn't speak a word of English. When the train took off, Net was the only one in her room so I was elated when the conductor okayed me staying in her room. He had keys that unlocked each bunk and pulled down the one above Net's. Just as I had settled in and unpacked, the train stopped at a station on the Spanish border and two old French women got on board with tickets showing that they were
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