Saturday, June 16, 2007

The random travel adventures continue

Im all the way back in France now..... Today was long, woke up nice and early and Judy drove me to the train station we had a very relaxing day yesterday and so i was all ready for my trains.....so off i went got my ticket felt pretty swave doing the same route knowing what to do.....Got from Andover to Clapham Junction no problem just some weird guy telling me about his random trip to ITaly that was meant for him and his girlfriend of 8 years.
Got from Clapham J to Victoria station perfectly and as we turned the corner i could see the eye of London and BIG BEN and i so badly wanted to jump ship and stay in London but i stayed on the train
Then i took the tubes from Victoria all the way out to Liverpool where i hopped on a train to stansted....quiet as planned....got in line got my ticket went to the bathroom left my passport in the bathroom.... oh yes i did it...thank god i noticed before i was out the bathroom dor but i had to wait until the lady was done to get it back....she was very excited because we were on the same plan....i never saw her again

SO then i had some time in Standsted to eat lunch which consisted of a egg mayo sandwich a Dr Pepper and a giant starbucks cookie to make me feel like less of an idiot for leaving my passport lying around

So then i got all on the plan and after switching seats so a couple could sit toegehter we were grounded for a thunderstorm....So then we got off i finished the most depressing book of life about the holocoust and then i arrived in France:::where much to my shigrin no one spoke English once again.....managed to get my luggage::::get yelled at by a police officer at customs for not speaking English::::well it was more of a friendly teasing looking down upon....he knew a surprising amount about Canadian geography and decided Toronto was close enough to Quebec that i should know French....
Then i managed to pass for French while buying my shuttle ticket until she asked me a question way way too fast....
Got on my nice half hour shuttle and while driving down the A34 passed two motorcycles..... one very normal....the other with a man dressed as a bunny rabbit...complete with a red nose....
Got to Lyon and agazin waited in line and passed for French speaking until the teller said something ridiculously fast.....anyway he treated me like a moron and told me how to read my ticket and such....ive been on like 100 trains now but i was so tired i let him think he was educating me
Got back to Macon finally and Caf and the crew were outside wanting to go out tonight....im almost 100% sure my brain is fried so i said no.....then I got back to Aze and went for dinner with Blue and tried Frog legs and SO GOOD

And thus concludes the not so funyn story of my day...i definitly thought it was funnier....

P.S. Im staying at Aze for the month of July woot.....its agood thing i think

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, sounds like England was quite the adventure! Glad to hear you had a good time and made it back to France safely. I take it you tracked down that guy's number before you got back?
Sorry I didn't comment more frequently. I started work last week, so I haven't had the same kind of free time for blog reading and commenting! Talk to you soon!

Anonymous said...

HEY LIZ…
I love your stories about England lol the part about spring watch made me laugh so hard… but I am at work and suppose to be working so when the person on the other side of the cubical asked me what was so funny… as a true blonde I answered oh I was just thinking. I am pretty sure they think I am 1) crazy 2) very slow now hahaha.
Look at what your blog is doing to me. Sorry I haven’t left many responses to your posts. I tend to read them at work and my computer faces the hall way so it is hard to get away with not doing anything it sucks. But they have helped me keep my sanity here. So work is providing me with enough material that I could start writing episodes of the office. Last Thursday our CEO decided that we needed a little moral boost cause you know we are missing the summer working in an office. So she decided to turn our board room (which I should mention is fairly small) into a mini putt course and have a pizza party at the same time. She even got us special prizes like sudoko. I think I should have one for almost being smoked in the face with both balls and clubs multiple times. Yep the joy of working in a crazy office! What book did you read about the holocaust?
I am so happy that you are having fun… I knew you would!
Okay im writing you a mini essay hahaha oh procrastination

Miss ya!!
Laura