Thursday 9 Sept wonderful Paris city of belles

Landed in the wonderful city of 9 million belles we discovered today. The journey was long with a 6 oclock start in the frost and a rush to catch the plane before the one we'd booked which was cancelled unexpectedly). a huge electrical storm in Hong Kong forced another two hour wait with bright lightening to assist the surreal. Ma femme une pilote)was completely at ease so I became so too. devil may care at 20,000 feet with the most intense bursts of light below climbing the trees of clouds and flowering into the most divine display of thunderbolts. Barbs quality chocolate gift was a similar godsend resurrecting spaced out travelers with delightful mouth explosions.

The taxi driver was from Homg kong as well and took us the whole way in eliminating the 4 minute walk with bikes that I'd been dreading for two years in a single well spoken stroke. The ceramic cups and saucers that exactly resembled crumpled plastic ones were a surrealist treat as we began to fall back into australian time at 2pm.

The bikes quickly reconstructed with only a bent handlebar on Sheila's surly to remind us forever of the 747 mashing that this time was expensive due to the overload fees as we each went 10kgs over the limit in the hold. traipsed mud through the hotel as all the gutters were filled with little rivers form broken plumbing. The bikes were stored in the cellar down 10 well worn steps in circles. Gerome and Chantell proved s sunburnt and friendly.

A glorious sleep in the quire afternoon to emerge conscious in a vast underground Monoprix with the vasy array of fromage and tasty peches vins and muscatel grapes. So wonderful to have another chance to be here and this time together.

expenses

e 60 taxi
e 13 cafe and croissant
e 24 monoprix diner.