Dreaming of Genie
I'm in Nice!
The flight was amazing. Really fabulous. I started out in Chicago on 5 hours of sleep due to last minute packing. Filled out AMCAS stuff on the plane to London. Talked to my seat mate whose name was Genie. She is a ~60 y/o white single woman off to London and then Nairobi, Kenya to run a Safari company! Yeah, no joke. She,s well traveled too, as she's been to Scandanavia, Russia, Western Europe, Qfrica, Australia, China, Japan, blah blah blah.
Our plane arrived at London Heathrow half an hour late, cutting way deep into my one hour for transferring from London to Nice. Not only that, Heathrow just had to be the biggest airport imaginable and my flight had to deplane at the furthest point from the connection. So I did something of a 5k waddle (with my 8-lb laptop and hiking backpack) through security checkpoints, visa checkpoints, and ENDLESSSSSSSSSSSS... corridors.
Well, the good news is that the Europeans are not known for being punctual.
I made my 8:05AM flight at 8:15AM with 20 minutes to spare. After finally getting settled on the British Airways flight to Nice, I realized something else- how vocal the British are. There was a baby crying almost the entire flight, and several Brits around me started cursing. I honestly don't remember this on any U.S. flight I've been on.
But it gets better. Really. After two hours of flying over clouds that shrouded unrecognizable mountains, I saw land! There was Nice all laid out on the Cote D'Azur. I was so mesmerized that I didn't dig through my overhead luggage for my digital camera. Picture of Nice beachfront scanned below.
And THEN, as we approached airport, I couldn't stop smiling for 2 whole minutes. Nice and I will get along just fine.
Pretty as a picture
The flight was amazing. Really fabulous. I started out in Chicago on 5 hours of sleep due to last minute packing. Filled out AMCAS stuff on the plane to London. Talked to my seat mate whose name was Genie. She is a ~60 y/o white single woman off to London and then Nairobi, Kenya to run a Safari company! Yeah, no joke. She,s well traveled too, as she's been to Scandanavia, Russia, Western Europe, Qfrica, Australia, China, Japan, blah blah blah.
Our plane arrived at London Heathrow half an hour late, cutting way deep into my one hour for transferring from London to Nice. Not only that, Heathrow just had to be the biggest airport imaginable and my flight had to deplane at the furthest point from the connection. So I did something of a 5k waddle (with my 8-lb laptop and hiking backpack) through security checkpoints, visa checkpoints, and ENDLESSSSSSSSSSSS... corridors.
Well, the good news is that the Europeans are not known for being punctual.
I made my 8:05AM flight at 8:15AM with 20 minutes to spare. After finally getting settled on the British Airways flight to Nice, I realized something else- how vocal the British are. There was a baby crying almost the entire flight, and several Brits around me started cursing. I honestly don't remember this on any U.S. flight I've been on.
But it gets better. Really. After two hours of flying over clouds that shrouded unrecognizable mountains, I saw land! There was Nice all laid out on the Cote D'Azur. I was so mesmerized that I didn't dig through my overhead luggage for my digital camera. Picture of Nice beachfront scanned below.
And THEN, as we approached airport, I couldn't stop smiling for 2 whole minutes. Nice and I will get along just fine.
Pretty as a picture
posted by R at 1:33 PM
3 Comments:
Hey Rui! Hope the Nice sun and French boys are treating you well ;). Loved the postcard! Wish you were here, or better yet, I was there! Love, Jevon
Hey,
How long is that program? I'm back in the lab now, and I hear you got the PDF grant so I guess you'll be back sometime. We're up to 14 people in the lab now, but I'm leaving at the beginning of July and Robert's leaving to go back to Poland in August.
I was thinking about posting in French, but it's been too long. I might be understandable but only barely.
Jay
OOH, thanks for the update Jay! I can't wait to see you. I'm back 7-5, but will be in Chicago from 6-26 to 7-4. Am trying to do as much as possible before leaving but at the same time very much look forward to being in the US, where stores are open past 7PM and I can talk to friends whenever I want.
*sigh*
A tout suite!
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