horror of horrors
Jul. 20th, 2017 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrift_etcI'm in a hotel.
Yesterday afternoon, I bid a tearful goodbye to the Germany family and painstakingly dragged my broken suitcase to France. The bus ride was only sometimes boring, impossible to sleep through, and ended in sorrow because my host didn't show up at the bus stop and then stopped answering my texts, leaving me stranded.
At about 21:30 - after like 6 hours of waiting - I caved and got a hotel room, because I feared for my things sleeping on a bench. If only I didn't have all my worldly possessions and loose changes on my person and no bank! but alas, I live another, poorer day.
Anyway, I'm glad this is at least happening in a country that speaks my language. I'm deciding what to do with myself in the morning: try to convince the airlines I've already booked with to shift me ahead so I can leave early, settle for the extent of my planned stay in the cheapest hostel I can find and eat uncooked spaghetti, or howl and drink cheap wine. I suspect I can find some sort of workable compromise.
What I like most about France is definitely the people. The land's quite flat and weirdly sandy.
Yesterday afternoon, I bid a tearful goodbye to the Germany family and painstakingly dragged my broken suitcase to France. The bus ride was only sometimes boring, impossible to sleep through, and ended in sorrow because my host didn't show up at the bus stop and then stopped answering my texts, leaving me stranded.
At about 21:30 - after like 6 hours of waiting - I caved and got a hotel room, because I feared for my things sleeping on a bench. If only I didn't have all my worldly possessions and loose changes on my person and no bank! but alas, I live another, poorer day.
Anyway, I'm glad this is at least happening in a country that speaks my language. I'm deciding what to do with myself in the morning: try to convince the airlines I've already booked with to shift me ahead so I can leave early, settle for the extent of my planned stay in the cheapest hostel I can find and eat uncooked spaghetti, or howl and drink cheap wine. I suspect I can find some sort of workable compromise.
What I like most about France is definitely the people. The land's quite flat and weirdly sandy.
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Date: 2017-07-20 09:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-07-21 11:55 am (UTC)