Jim went out and foraged for food this morning. He stopped by the Starbucks where the kid got his back pack stolen. Apparently that area is saturated with plain clothes police. The baristas called the police, and the police caught the thieves and got the back pack returned to its owner. Later the kid came by the Starbucks and got his laptop. So he was made whole again. That is a good thing.
The bad thing is I probably have the flu. One of the cool things about Europe is doctors who make house calls. I called the desk, they called the doctor company and he was here thirty minutes later. He gave me cough syrup so I can sleep, but told me I must respect the cough, and when it becomes productive, leave it be. Hopefully I'll be home by then. I am contagious. Poor Jim.
This is the downside to crowds. Even though we run away if we hear a cough or a sneeze it's inevitable that a strand of RNA will make it through. I'm in Paris and I'm sick. Quelle domage.
Many years ago while traveling by train from Oslo to Paris, I got sick on the train and spent my first day in Paris sick and lying in bed all day. So I know the feeling. Get well quick and safe travels.
ReplyDeleteOslo to Paris sounds like a very ambitious train ride.
DeleteI was hoping your run of bad luck had ended.
ReplyDeleteDid you get a flu shot or is this a special Parisian strain of the virus?
I did get the flu shot, but they don't cover everything. I breathed in the not covered thing.
DeleteI hope the cold goes soon. That Security guard was probably on a higher state of alert after all the troubles in Paris and then Brussels. There are lots of immigrants / refugees wandering in many European cities at the moment, and when I was in Paris last the Gare du Nord was inundated with them. I was too was watching Paris Roubaix, they dont call it the Hell of the North for nothing with all those cobbles.
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