tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post834008918559700275..comments2023-11-05T00:54:02.116-07:00Comments on Not Sweating the Small Stuff: Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-25619434246243232282008-01-31T23:40:00.000-08:002008-01-31T23:40:00.000-08:00hey beaumec39, great to hear this is not a totally...hey beaumec39, great to hear this is not a totally isolated incident - and like you i try to be open to helping people in the same way. my family comes from Lyon but have been in Australia since 1851. great that you help in your situation. keep in contact! email is goodnickwallacesmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264274719820605716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-48524198665278730862008-01-31T17:28:00.000-08:002008-01-31T17:28:00.000-08:00La belle Paris, ma coeur, mes rêves!My experience...La belle Paris, ma coeur, mes rêves!<br><br>My experience very similar, in Bordeaux, to store my luggage for the day, with a F50,- for a F5,- service, and they didn't have change either. A couple pays for me, small kindness goes a long distance. I do attempt to do so when possible, and I am on a disability retirement.<br><br>AWHbeaumec39noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-88803983396124334962008-01-13T09:52:00.000-08:002008-01-13T09:52:00.000-08:00hey greg - i never thought of that! i was swooning...hey greg - i never thought of that! i was swooning away with grandiose thoughts of the milk of human kindness - and all she wanted was to give me a blow job!nickwallacesmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264274719820605716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-17687763409039162142008-01-13T08:48:00.000-08:002008-01-13T08:48:00.000-08:00Maybe she was hot for you?lol - Sorry just a joke....Maybe she was hot for you?<br>lol - Sorry just a joke.<br>The kindness of strangers might be memorable so much because it just doesn't quite happen that much anymore maybe? I TRY to do good things for people occasionally, not to win some kind of imaginary future award later on when I croak, but because it just makes me feel better.<br><br>Or something like that.... lolGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00794255819889944898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-20799177505565618202008-01-13T06:01:00.000-08:002008-01-13T06:01:00.000-08:00hey volker. as i have probably mentioned my backgr...hey volker. as i have probably mentioned my background is french - and i've been lucky enough to spend extended periods of time there - 9 months some years ago and a couple of months in 2004. good for activating my language again - sometimes when i talk, a word comes out of my mouth i never knew i had - have you had this experience? i remember 'singe' (monkey) popping out at le jardin des plants - and wondering why i would ever have learned that word. sounds the kind that's taught at school! rather than words that are functionally useful!nickwallacesmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264274719820605716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-40963256870792054002008-01-13T05:07:00.000-08:002008-01-13T05:07:00.000-08:00I've been to Paris twice for a very short visi...I've been to Paris twice for a very short visit (summer 1972) or passing through (spring 1987). The first time I came into Gare de l'Est from Carcassonne and then proceeded on to Strasbourg from Gare du Nord two days later. During the last pass through I came into Gare Montparnasse from St. Malo via Renne, by taxi to Gare de l'Est (I believe) and on to Bern, Switzerland by TGV. Would be nice to visit the city again but for a longer period. I did see Place des Vosges and the Notre Dame on the first visit but there is yet so much that interests me.Volkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-15315478361609938702008-01-13T01:12:00.000-08:002008-01-13T01:12:00.000-08:00hey anon, glad you had a similar sense of the area...hey anon, glad you had a similar sense of the area. did you go to 'open cafe' - perhaps the most popular gay establishment in the area - a great place to hang and meet people.nickwallacesmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264274719820605716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8702704691528115190.post-72698426212932240162008-01-12T15:11:00.000-08:002008-01-12T15:11:00.000-08:00I was in Le Marais for a weekend last year, and ap...I was in Le Marais for a weekend last year, and apart from the 'natural' beauty of most things around, it was the generosity towards me, a 30 something Australian, that most struck me. <br>Trite, but but true...I love the place, and the people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com