December 30th
00.49. The sun has set over Toulouse for a few hours. Perrine’s mother takes her to the plane, her sister comes along. A tear wants to come out but it’s better with a turned back.
Sleep about 3 hours
7.36. Paris, still night. Walking around, looking for a coffee.
10.00. Getting the visas. Enormously huge sigh of relief… Hello India
13.12. Train to Belfort
17.12 Arrival in Belfort.
20.00 Dinner, wine and cheese, baguette. Our farewell to French gastronomy.
21.00 Go to bed…
December 31st. The last day of 2011…
01.00 Good morning wake up, we go to Geneve Interrnational airport. Luckily, it is a snow storm night. Road is sleepery and Michel is tired. Cécile is talking to him a lot. Perrine listens to the radio on the back seat.
5.15 Geneva International airport. Switzerland seems clean and organized country. This stereotype doesn’t apply to the airport parking system.
5.30 Check in along many young fancy and cool swiss people speaking French who go to Stockholm to spend a great, unforgettable new year’s Eve in the capital of Scandinavia.
6.45 In the plane. Few turbulences. Perrine and Cécile sitting nex to each other in the same plane is not a good idea. To all it may concern, do not sit next to a flight scared person if you have a flight fright also. It may increase the level of fearat an interesting rate.
9.30 Stocholm. And Oh my God, it’s -5°C, and we have clothing for India in the bags. But it’s sunny.
11.00 First coffee, we plan the trip in India. It might be about time. The cafe is only filled with men, drinking beer or coffee, listening to Football songs. One man explained to us that the cafe is actually closed, for a friends and football party. But we’re welcome to stay and « we should drink a beer. It’s the last day of the year. ». At the end, we got a free coffee.
15.00 Check in the ‘’internet hostel’’. There is no reception, a lot of young (and cool with a touch of fashion) people getting ready and waiting for the big time. We just get our bed and get out.
16.00 We step in the first cafe, didn’t know we would meet the angel of Stockholm. We order a beer. Perrine reads books, Cécile reads, writes, watches pictures… Normal European cafe life. Until… The angel – who is also the barman – comes with a plate of delicious French fries, a wide smile and sparkling eyes. It is on the house. Then every 10 minutes, he comes to check if we are ok. As Cécile lies down on the couch and closes hereyes, he comes with a blanket and protects her from catching a cold on the last day of 2011. As Cécile wakes up later, he brings two coffees, and milk. We were so touched, we left him a note on a photograph « To monsieur ». We pay and go. As he found a few seconds later, he ran after us to say that we forgot something. We told him from accross the street that i twas for him. He was touched, we were very touched, Happy New Year.
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| Cecile and the blanket brought by the angel, Stockholm |
22.00 Hostel. No angels around, no air either. But a bunch of 5 French fucking idiots. These guys thought they had something. They didn’t. No, actually stinky socks. Also in the room 3 beauties, who unfortunately missed midnight as they were still getting ready and more beautiful for the disco.
January 1s. HAPPY NEW YEAR
01.00 Nobody left in the hostel, we can sleep….
01.30 THE GUYS ARE BACK !!!!!!! They clubs didn’t let them in. How bad for us. But they had a lot of clever things to discuss in the room. So they party next to us. Happy new year.
10.00 Small eyes, good morning shower.
10.30 Out
11.00 Coffee in a lovely little cafe with old Swedish men. It slushes outside.
14.30 We go to the airport, decided to spend the rest of the day like if we were in a cottage next to a fire place, for a true Sunday atmosphere. And funilly enough we managed. We set up a sitting room, with coffee, pipari kakku and a bollywood movie. We felt like home. Mmh.
20.30 In the plane. Perrine and Cécile are scared and remember how it went the day before. But Swiss Airlines invented « Jocking around », a serie of amusing hidden camera. We almost weren’t scared anymore. To all it may concern, ask beforehand the plane company if they offer quality entertainment in the flight.
22.45 Zurich. Welcome to sim’s city. It is clean, like swiss clean shining, absolutely humanless, and huge. The children area offers a very comfortable ground, planned for children not to get hurt in case of fall. It excellent for a night of sleep… Unfortunately the cleaning team is very active during the all night, equiped with advanced technologies.
Januray 2nd
07.00. We want a shower, but it costs 15 euros. So we spend the time going back and forth by train between the D and E Terminals, getting controled 4 times, loosing our jam on the way. To all it may concern, jam is not allowed in Swiss terminals.
12.45 Plane to New Delhi. Ok, we are not very proud, but overall quite okay. The entertainement is good, the red wine helps a lot and the staff keeps feeding us continuously. Full belly does not think nor fear. To all the dictator of the world : full stomachs form more obedient citizens.
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