Mac person with early Mac.
La Défense business district.
View from La Grande Arche, the red object is an Alexander Calder stabile. "Sandy" lived in Roxbury, CT.Note: If you are tired of hearing about our adventures with public transportation, please skip to the next paragraph. Go ahead, it's OK. . . . No? OK. So this morning we take the RER to La Defense. The RER is like the Metro but faster because it has fewer stops. To exit the station we go up two floors, by escalator, head to the exit turnstiles only to find out that our monthly passes don't work. We go back down two levels, ask questions at the newsstand. Language difficulties, confusion, etc. Bottom line: we can not exit the station. We can ask the people at the info counter but we can't get to the info counter because it's beyond the turnstiles. Interesting. As we're considering getting on the next train back, which is all we can do, we see people coming in through the special side doors for people with strollers, luggage, etc. So we darted through before the doors shut. Luckily the three soldiers with automatic weapons that were patrolling the station missed our little maneuver. A side note: earlier, at a different station, as I stood checking my notes on which train we wanted, a nice young Frenchman stopped and made sure we could find our train. So much for the anti-American stereotype.
Optional start point -- La Défense a.k.a. "Le petit Manhattan", is the skyscraper area of Paris. The most notable landmark is La Grande Arche (picture a squared-off arch with no curves). We took the elevator to the top where they had an exhibit of computers throughout history. Andy and I got to relive our chiphead days.
Yesterday I was on the DL with a cold so Andy went to the Picasso Museum by himself. When we're not out riding on buses, we read, and read. TV only has a few news channels, but on Saturday and Sunday nights, they have Jay Leno! Jay is like our USO show. Comedy, music, audience participation -- I half expect to see Ann Margaret shimmying around in tight Army fatigues. They run two current shows, back to back with only two commercial breaks. When he does those newspaper headlines with the ridiculous typos I just die laughing. Now I know why the troops found Bob Hope so funny. They loved Bob just like we love Jay.
Happy spring everyone. -E.
Optional start point -- La Défense a.k.a. "Le petit Manhattan", is the skyscraper area of Paris. The most notable landmark is La Grande Arche (picture a squared-off arch with no curves). We took the elevator to the top where they had an exhibit of computers throughout history. Andy and I got to relive our chiphead days.
Yesterday I was on the DL with a cold so Andy went to the Picasso Museum by himself. When we're not out riding on buses, we read, and read. TV only has a few news channels, but on Saturday and Sunday nights, they have Jay Leno! Jay is like our USO show. Comedy, music, audience participation -- I half expect to see Ann Margaret shimmying around in tight Army fatigues. They run two current shows, back to back with only two commercial breaks. When he does those newspaper headlines with the ridiculous typos I just die laughing. Now I know why the troops found Bob Hope so funny. They loved Bob just like we love Jay.
Happy spring everyone. -E.
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