DISH DOES EUROPE: Avignon
After just about an entire day of traveling — including two train rides from Paris to Avignon, I finally got to step off a moving object and breathe in the air of France.
Which was a strange mix of cigarettes and very strong perfume.
I have never be to Europe before, so you would expect my anticipation for this trip would be off the charts. But for some reason it wasn’t. Maybe I had too much work to finish before I left. Maybe I didn’t have time to sit back and think about all the sights I’d see and food I’d eat. Maybe I just didn’t know what to expect, really, in order to get excited.
It was D, all of the above.
That’s the thing about traveling — you never have enough time to soak in the concept that you’ll be on vacation because you’re too busy packing (or doing laundry so you have something to pack), wrapping up projects at work, figuring out how to enable the out-of-office function on your e-mail, find sitters for your dogs (at least in my case) and get your finances in order. Who has time to think about the actual trip?
So now that I’m in my very cramped (but comfortable) hotel room in Avignon, France — yes, with a bidet — I can finally reflect on the trip that I’m on. (I’ve graded the last of my papers on the plane.)
On our way
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