That prolly should be in the opposite order. Sitting at the train station now (Gare du Nord) waiting for train to Calais since the 10am one was full. There's a random guy talking to the lady next to me (we are in the waiting area with the heat lamps (which make me feel lizard-like; or mabye like hobos around a trash can fire)). Now she has invited him to sit down, apparently on top of me. There are metal things on the bench to deter people from sleeping on them, and is now becoming an incentive to desist sitting. Squish. Oh good, he's gotten up to be chivalrous to some old ladies and offered them my seat. I expand back.
Anyway, the awesome map was acquired at the hostel we stayed at the first night, and has attractions & metro map on it. It looks to be printed by a galerie (mall, prolly), which we will not visit. But it has many desirable characteristics of a temporary travel map, vis.: light, comprehensive, w/ lots of little streets labeled, durable, not too large/awkward so we can look at it in the street.
Winning on metro tickets:
(by FuzzyFish)
We bought a zone 1 day pass, which doesn't include Versailles, but the gate only checked at the start of the outbound leg and the end of the inbound leg, and both those points were in zone 1, so we got a free ride into Versailles. Yay!
We're on the 1st car from the locomotive; can hear the engine noise whenever it's on (sometimes it pulses on/off, when coasting at low speed). Passed a whole field of high-tension power lines; the supports look like squat monsters fading into the foggy distance. Some really low clouds; very distinct wispiness.
Falafel. Much bigger, fresh-fried balls, not hard or as dense as other falafel we've had. Too bad Marc's store was closed. Possibly condemned by health board; will have to translate this sign (update: sign just says certified kosher). But we got some from another store (probably gentile-owned; was open 7 days). Lots of filling. Bottom was red cabbage and onion, though...stained my jeans, and I wish it'd been more mixed in w/ the rest. Maybe I should have mixed it. Were going to go back to the French restaurant for foix gras + egg dish, but got lazy. Also forgot to get train reservation, which was not great.
Oh - at train station, saw 2 pigeons, 1 missing a foot and the other missing some toes. Why? How?
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