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Album Name:
Europe Trip 2004: Paris, Days 1 & 2 |
Album Description:
Days 1 & 2, Sept. 9 & 10, Thursday & Friday, LA to Paris |
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Image Name:
Paris 2004 |
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| Day 1, Sept. 9, LA to Paris, via Frankfurt, Germany, on Lufthansa on a Boeing 747. I flew for free using United miles. I arived at LAX 3 1/2 hours ahead of flight time and it still took me 1/2 hour to get checked in at the counter, 1/2 hour to have my checked-in baggage checked for explosives, and another 1/2 to get through security and then more time to get to the gate. Then I changed some dollars into Euros to add to the ones tha we had left from our trip to Europe last year. There was little leg room on the 747, but my seat mates, a very nice Chinese couple who had retired in Las Vegas, let me out often from my window seat. No German food was served--we had pasta for dinner. After taking off from LAX, we flew quite low over Long Beach and I could see the Queen Mary, the Spruce Goose, and the harbor. Quite a sight. It was a 10-hour flight from LA to Frankfurt. We went through an immigration check here. It was easily a mile walk from the gate that we arrived at to the gate for my connecting flight to Paris. You could stop off to do some real gambling at the airport's casino--complete with a dealer--or have your first cup of real European coffee (which I did). With a nine-hour time difference between LA and Frankfurt, it was already Day 2 when I arrived. I was very very tired when I landed a couple of hours later at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. I was met there by daughter Britt and her boyfriend Chris. We took a bus into Paris and walked from the bus stop to their apartment. Britt and Chris have been in Paris since the middle of May except for the time that she came home in June to stay with me. They have been taking French classes at a school in Paris. |
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