Reasonably Logical

Well, after yesterday you’d think today would have had to have started off better right? Nope. I got up on time, paid for my room (I couldn’t last night since it was so late) and had breakfast. The problem came with my morning antibiotic. I must not have used enough water or something swallowing it. I burbed and got a mouthful of (very caustic) antibiotic (once out of the pill case) and stomach acid. Suffice to say that was _not_ pleasant. Thankfully, I had this happen once before, so at least I knew what was happening. After wasting an hour drinking anything and everything I could, I continued on with my morning.

First stop for the day was just wandering through some local streets. Entirely by accident, I stumbled across Notre-Dame and did the tour there. After that, I went back to the hostel, got my laundry and went to the laundry mat/internet cafe. (That’s where my earlier post came from.) After doing all my laundry, I walked to the Bastille Plaza (where the french revolution started with the storming of the Bastille prison.) There isn’t anything there anymore (it was dimolished by the mob), but still I was there! On the way over, I stopped in a sidewalk cafe and had a great lunch.

After that, I took the tube down to the Invalides (Nepolean’s Tomb) and the Rodin(sp) Musuem. Both were fairly interesting, but I won’t bore you with a listing of the exhibts. I didn’t finish up there until around 5:30, then I headed back to hostel, folded my clothes, relaxed for a few minutes and got ready to go back out. Next, I’m heading to the Eiffel tower and dinner.

As a sidenote, I’ve been really suprised how little difficulty I’m having getting around without knowing any french. A lot of people know (and are willing to speak) English which makes this a breeze compared to Japan. The only time I’ve had issues was trying to get a taxi last night. (And there I’m fairly sure they understood me just fine and didn’t want to leave the expensive/profitable area of the city.)

— Paris, 7:30 pm local time

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