dx �while waiting for this first train i had a nice conversation with a guy who recognized me from the cancelled transavia flight because of my hat :3
he knows dutch, english, german, latin and a little spanish so we talked about grammar and word roots.
i'm in first class like some sort of rich person, because at 170 eur it's cheaper than 2nd class, and as expensive as a hotel night (i'm not a fan of oktoberfest). it's comfy but not enough to replace a proper bed. it'd be easier to sleep if people stopped talking.
a staff person walked by and offered to take one from a tray full of those. TL note it says "train train i love my station"
did i really hear train staff announce "ladies and gentlemen please take care of your belongings there's strange people walking around"
neat, as soon as the train crossed the border i got two different 'welcome to the netherlands' SMS from each simcard (UK / AR, former has free EU roaming, latter has free UDP roaming)
where does the EU fit in the OSI model anyway. proof that OSI is a bad model imo
going to paris, o rly no wai!!!!!
heheheh my UK simcard from carrier "EE" has free roaming in .fr through "free". fr ee. heheheheheheh
what, did you expect relaxing vacations just chilling and not doing much? too bad! here's three time limited activities that need to be done today because there's no tomorrow
(this is fun tbh, altough oof owie my bank account hurts)
oh i get it, french trains announce in 5+ languages to avoid acknowledging that english won
back in germany they told me to follow the rules, always wait for traffic lights, always be on time, etc, so i did.
apparently here in france i'm supposed to jaywalk everywhere and be late to everything, so that's what i'm doing
apparently here in france i'm supposed to jaywalk everywhere and be late to everything, so that's what i'm doing
i'm having decent luck getting people to speak english. even an old lady who was asking me how to use a machine! i can pretend to know written french but spoken is gibberish to me.
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it's one of those days that make you go "bitcoin is good, actually"
i successfully configured a SIP calling app, "zoiper" (after two failed attempts with linphone and sipdroid) to use callcentric to be able to call visa to try to unblock my cards, with partial success (credit is fucked, debit will allow extractions in two hours)
anyway we're in this very long train from paris to lyon part dieu: electric boogaloo
i could have changed my flight and see them in paris two days ago but an ~adventure~ to lyon seemed more ~fun~. that's still ~technically correct~
this whole thing is making me realize that maybe i was rich before this trip (for south american values of rich)
so i'm on a bus leaving lyon, going back to paris to catch my flight to london tonight.
i got an AC socket here charging my phone, already slept a couple of hours in here, and window looks like pic. good moment to explain what happened.
i got an AC socket here charging my phone, already slept a couple of hours in here, and window looks like pic. good moment to explain what happened.
wednesday morning:
transavia flight didn't betray me this time, got to ORY in time, immediately found @[email protected] wearing a highly recognizable VLC (very large cone) hat from last week's videolan dev days.
transavia flight didn't betray me this time, got to ORY in time, immediately found @[email protected] wearing a highly recognizable VLC (very large cone) hat from last week's videolan dev days.
we got to the paris center, which at times looks an awful lot like i never left buenos aires. some of this shit's like, average corrientes y callao architecture. some parts are neater though.
[intermission: they asked us to leave the bus for 30 mins so i got food. the girl said she knew "a little" english which seems to mean as much as my french, so i ordered the wrong thing, but it ended up being cheaper and still delicious. not pictured, i ate it]
anyway wednesday afternoon:
we had lunch (ordered secret stuff off the french-only menu, not listed in the english one, turned out to be minced chicken and mashed potatoes)
...and started planning the first ~adventure~ involving, uhm, printers. also, running.
we had lunch (ordered secret stuff off the french-only menu, not listed in the english one, turned out to be minced chicken and mashed potatoes)
...and started planning the first ~adventure~ involving, uhm, printers. also, running.
the day before, while still in NL, i got an email from the canada visa thing implying that it might be approved but they need me to send the passport physically. this is uh. tricky while staying only 3 days in france. but decided to give them a visit and try to talk about it.
the plan involved potentially cancelling non-refundable flights to stay another week in france but still make it to canada, stuff like that. hence the bank account hurting.
long story short, canada is cancelled, everything fell through because i got there 4 minutes after the closing time (16:30), not a soul inside, running wasn't enough. so yeah, RIP.
i'll do the passport stuff when i'm back in argentina, and might try rebooking canada (if it hurts less than cancelling)
soooo, moving on, later that day we were supposed to meet with @[email protected] who, surprisingly, actually has a physical presence!
we sort of did meet! in chunks! because i screwed up and remembered i had a limited window for the airbnb checkin between 17 and 19 so.. i vanished for like two hours after we met ;_;
that airbnb wasn't even that good, was a few shared rooms with 6 people per room. does the job and it's 25 euros booked the day before, won't complain too much.
anyway during that time i left @[email protected] talking with @[email protected] and when we met again and tried to speedrun one section of the louvre museum but they refused to sell tickets to @[email protected] because it was closing in 30 mins ;_;
also cool rooms (didn't take more pics because it's the sort of beauty cameras don't capture well, or at least not mine)
then we had pizza because it seems we're all negatively-opinionated about food. my randomly picked pizza might have had pineapple and i didn't care.
dang, i told myself i'd avoid political posts here, sorry
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