Well, my friends, my time in France will come to an end in only but a few hours (the last of them having been, and will be, spent waiting in an airport). These are some things I'd like to take note of...
1. Apparently, & according to my fellow Frenchmen on Blabla car (will explain the Blabla later), an American should normally have vacationed elsewhere in France, say Paris. Bretagne, they say, was an odd choice of location. Perhaps this is because Bretagne is a newer addition to the country, only having joined a few hundreds of years ago... I'll remember to try and add traditional France to my schedule next time..!
2. The bottled water here does not taste pleasant and refreshing. Tastes like I'm drinking some weird old pool water, or something. Note to stay away. It's not horrible, but not good.
3. Blabla car. Amazing thing. Systemized ride share that is usually cheaper than flying, driving, train-ing, or busing. Wonderful!
4. French croissants and meringues taste SO GOOD. At least at local boulangeries. They know what they're doing.
5. If you're gonna sleep in Orly airport, Orly airport *will* yell at you safety tests over the intercom repeatedly for 40 minutes, starting at midnight..... :\
6. If you wear normal clothing, and not Hawaiian shirts with stretchy waistband pants, you're likely to get confused as a French-speaking human. In light of this, learn how to tell people you really know nothing of the French language! Either that, or learn French.
7. There are weird little instant specialized coffee machines that give you all sorts of weird options, like Oreo crumbs in your cup of Joe or KitKat filled hot chocolate..... Note: bring euro coins to try aaaall the options next time!!
8. American fast food chains = sooooo different outside the U.S. In Iceland, KFC offered lamb soup, I think. In France, McDonald's offers Le P'tit TexMex burger and thick cut fries with curry sauce!
Well! Off to Naples, Italy now (in 2 hours) to visit my brother's family in their new home! Wooohooo! Wish me a good flight (unless you read this more than 4 hours from the time I published this-- haha).
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