Vacations

March 4, 2009 | Filed Under Main | 2 Comments

Paris was… well, Paris. Sometimes you just walk around like Carmella in the Sopranos and say to yourself – “Who built this place?” It is quite a wonder. Saw much art, had great food and many beverages. Alas – like with every other vacation – we did not get to see any live music. Our days work like this: From late morning to mid-afternoon, we walk until our legs fall off. Then we come back to the apartment and rest. Then we go out for a fabulous meal and a bottle of wine and then we go back to the apartment to pass out. These seem like full days to me. How does anyone go out after the meal? Is it the Red Bull?

The flights were okay. I saw two decent movies – Rachel Getting Married and WALL-E. The first had great acting and the second was probably one of the most original films made last year. The flight out was a bit cramped for me, but coming back I was on the end of an empty row of four. However – as luck would have it – behind me was a young French boy (maybe 6?) who did NOT SHUT UP for the entire flight. Singing, yelling, climbing over the seats and basically making it imperative that I remain under the iPod. Even taking the bus to the terminal, he was still going. That’s when I noticed he had an older sister. She never said a word the entire time. As this kid careened off his mousey mother (who never reprimanded him and kept referring to him a ‘monsieur’), I looked at the girl and got the impression that she sees this often at home with any male in her mother’s life.

Everything came in on time and all the baggage and parcels made it. Then came the food poisoning.

Don’t know whether it was the indescribable ‘snack’ that was served on the flight from Doha or the fast food Arabic chicken I picked up at the airport before heading home, but the next 24 hours were rather grim. Ever heard of the phrase “the sluices were open at both ends”? I have but I had never experienced it until now. After six hours of that, the fetal position was about as good as it gets. Amazing the number of muscles that kind of illness takes. I am still sore all over.

Yes – back in the Q…

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  1. Mike March 4, 2009 5:30 am

    Fast food Arabic chicken??? Are you kidding me?? Even a bachelor like me wouldn’t eat that. But the vacation sounds great. Someday I will travel out of the U.S., hopefully to Ireland to golf there for a week instead of in Florida, which I will be doing two weeks from today…my spring training!

  2. mburma March 4, 2009 6:10 am

    You need to get out, dude. It’s not that expensive (compared to Florida) and it’s not that hard.

    And the chicken looked good on the plastic menu…