Travel Talk

Eurail Global Pass 3 Months Continuous and a Night in Paris

Greetings;

This keyboard is helter skelter, like someone took the keys out and put it back in a different way,luckily I do not look at th keyboard, this is in French though so I am sure I won’t know all the keys.

Spent the night in Paris last night, didn’t do much. Missed my train from Amsterdam by a few minutes to Brussel, caught a high speed one and met up with my other one on the track, but it never happened.

Suffice to say I made it here though. I had to pay 40E to get on a high speed Thales train as all were booked. I did buy that Eurail pass, it’s a bit of a rip off considering it doesn’t even include the UK. Perhaps this gentleman should have investigated more. Flip side is, considering this trip would have been ~180E having booked last minute, if I paid 1580E I’m already making a dent. If you’re not familiar with the program, this is a great guide on how to use Eurail.

As much as I’d like to do nothing this summer, I do reckon that if I just sat around I’d regret not seeing all of Europe. So far I want to finish this segment in my fav city.I want to sit in my fav city in Europe and be like, been other places, this is the bomb. So yeah, probably Amsterdam. Frankly I could of just lived there, why did I buy a pass again!?

Finding a place in Paris is easy, if you have money. I found a place for 60E near the train station and could have spent way more. This one guy answered “Sir, you are located across the street from the largest train station in Europe, no we do NOT have cheaper rooms” when I inquired about deals. He did so in French of course.

Met this Haitian dude from Toronto here on the street in my journey’s last night, it was alright. Man, it was tough to leave Amsterdam it has this gravitational pull. It’s also odd how I’m typing this in Paris and had no customs nothing through 2 countries. I was in 3 countries yesterday, not sure if I’ve done that before.

I was in Belgium for about 2 hours, I have family there, had I planned this better, I’d of visited them. Then again, I have a free PASS despite piker sized restrictions that I won’t bat an eye at for the next 3 months.

I must use this pass most egregiously. Countries included but not limited to: Austria, Netherlands, France, Spain, Monaco, Croatia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Romania, Hungary, Luxeumbourg, Switzerland, Slovenia, I’m running out of ideas.

Suffice to say, if I visit each of these, which is the plan, I’ll be up to something like 45 countries / territories total which is pretty cool. Being over here I realize how huge Canada is and how fast it takes you to get used to new prices.

In Vietnam I’d be like “D@MN YOU for charging me $0.65 when you charged Wok over there $0.38 but for some reason paying $2.75E for a coke or 5E for a pint is acceptable, now that I’ve been here a bit.

I paid 60E for a crappy hotel last night, in Asia? We’re looking at 4 nights in a better hotel haha.

Ok, I’ve got a day here until I come back here. It’s like a 5 hour trip to St. Malo from Paris, I need to be there early if this whole meeting my cousin as he gets off the ferry in his car works. Then, I believe, we shall drive south.

Good day to you!

P.S: After Amsterdam, I’m looking forward to some wine, cheese and beaches, preferably world reknown “French Style” beaches or whatever.

P.P.S: Considering I may be there for a bit and I doubt they have email as my Aunt doesn’t even believe / “have a need for” email. So we shall see. Just remember, if no updates, I’m either dead being carried out to sea by some current OR doing whatever it is I typically do and have recounted in the 250+ updates on this here blog.

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