Well, I have now done number two on a train just entering France through the Chunnel. Booyah! That’s how I like to enter a country! Wapow!<\/p>\n
<\/span>Ahem. Staying with my buddy in Windsor was lovely and relaxing, the town is a bit dull but I relished the rest. Got some clean clothes on, I’m well-fed, and it was nice to reminisce with an old friend. Not much else to say, just relaxed all weekend. I do need to mention some ridiculousness about booking this Eurostar train that I’m on. So a one-way from London to Paris for today was no less than 176 pounds, or about 270 US. I paid only 100 pounds for a roundtrip ticket going out at the same time and returning sometime in late June. So I saved $100+ by buying a return ticket that I have no intention of using. Sorry, but what the freaking hell! I’m racking my brain to figure out, how does a return ticket reduce the one way cost by that much, the only thing I can think of is on-board purchases, but I can’t believe my expected on-board purchases would be that much… in other words, that shit’s broken yall!<\/p>\n <\/span>So far France looks pretty similar to the Midwest… some farms and some forests with highways every once in a while. I bought some pain au chocolat on the way though, basically a croissant with chocolate chunks in it. That was healthy of me! Mmmmmmm. I remember au meaning “at the” or something similar… if I’m right, direct translation yields bread at the chocolate! That would be a good band name!<\/p>\n <\/span>Oh yeah, I keep forgetting to mention my new favorite town in the world. I passed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllanty on the train on the way to Llandudno. I would hate to have a relative there, their envelopes must be like 20 inches long!<\/p>\n <\/span>Ok Paris, let’s see if you really hate Americans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I have now done number two on a train just entering France through the Chunnel. Booyah! That’s how I like to enter a country! Wapow! Ahem. Staying with my buddy in Windsor was lovely and relaxing, the town is a bit dull but I relished the rest. Got some clean clothes on, I’m well-fed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.michaelaikins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}