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Aug. 2nd, 2006 03:26 pmWe went to the Musée Gallo-Romain yesterday. My thoughts were evenly diveded between 'eee Romans squee Claudius could have touched this very pillar with his imperial hands' and 'Why couldn't those bloody Romans written more clearly and not used abbrieviations?' Because all the incriptions were totally illegible. But it was really cool. I think I wandered around with a silly grin on my face.
Then I decided to go to the music store, so they dropped me off, after giving me fairly simple directions. I spent my time at the music store, left, got pain au chocolate to get change for a Metro ticket (and I'm not coming home until Americans figure out how to make better pain au chocolate) and got on the metro. Everything was fine - until the train stopped a station before it was supposed to.
Now harken unto the wanderings of our dark-eyed heroine.
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They say 'Je t'en pris' to 'merci' here. Ils sont fous ces lyonais. I mean, at least 'bienvenue' makes sense in a sort of you're-trampling-on-the-purity-of-the-language-I-hope-all-the-members-of-the-Acadamie-francaise-come-dance-on-your-grave way.
Then I decided to go to the music store, so they dropped me off, after giving me fairly simple directions. I spent my time at the music store, left, got pain au chocolate to get change for a Metro ticket (and I'm not coming home until Americans figure out how to make better pain au chocolate) and got on the metro. Everything was fine - until the train stopped a station before it was supposed to.
Now harken unto the wanderings of our dark-eyed heroine.
( Read more... )
They say 'Je t'en pris' to 'merci' here. Ils sont fous ces lyonais. I mean, at least 'bienvenue' makes sense in a sort of you're-trampling-on-the-purity-of-the-language-I-hope-all-the-members-of-the-Acadamie-francaise-come-dance-on-your-grave way.