Solo female travel advice = happiness.

I usually travel alone. There are hundreds of reasons to do so, many of which I mention in these posts. But what it comes down to is: Either learn to get along in strange places without your friends, or stay home!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tangent - I love old people

This adorable French couple barely made it onto my train to the airport. They scrambled into the car (aided by yours truly of course) with tons of luggage as the doors were closing, grousing hilariously about their state of affairs and how these trains fall short of their expectations (their conversation was peppered with all sorts of "mais c'est impossible!" and "oh la la la la"s.) Just amazing. Since then they have discovered they were in the completely wrong cabin. Current the woman is telling everyone on the platform how much her husband snored last night and he is just sitting there rather proudly. I'll say it again: I love old people.


Me listening to book reports in which English words are mispronounced to the point that most of them sound like extremely offensive racial slurs and profanity: