Nous sommes arrives a Paris! But first, here’s London. We arrived on time and therefore had plenty of time in the afternoon to begin our first forced march. We walked all the way to Covent Garden, Trafalger Square, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham palace, and then to Dave and Ginny’s much nicer hotel - a distance of some five miles. At Covent Garden, we watched a busker work with three brass cups and some rubber balls. He counted “One, Two, Three”, and then “Uno, due, tres,” then “Un, deux trois,” then (while smacking the table hard with his wand, counted “Eins, zwei, drei.” Finally, he said he would count like an American. “One,” he said, and then stopped, as if confused. “Another one,” he said finally. I laughed hysterically - perhaps more a sign of my fatigue
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