Hello all, it´s 4 days into my trip and I´m now in Madrid after catching a sleeper train last night. Diana and I zoomed around Paris before this. A reminder for those of you who are planning on traveling with others. If you take the window seat so you can sleep during the flight to wherever you are going, then don´t complain if your buddy in the aisle seat is tired the next day! The first day in Paris was definitely exhausting, what with the lugging the back pack around, finding a place to stay (or not finding it, which happened several times), and then running off to see Notre Dame, the Pantheon, Pont Neuf, some archeological crypt, and getting food. All of this on foot, of course. Considering my fair travel buddy was still alive
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