Today is Andrew and Ellen’s last day in Paris. They fly out early in the morning tomorrow. Yeech.
\nEllen still has some things she wants to do so the morning was for them to do stuff while I woke up and located where the Musee de la Police <\/i>was. We decided to meet up for lunch near the Pompideau Center. While we were working this out on the phone via texting, I run out of credit on my SIM while on the Metro.
\nNo problemo, right? Drop into a Tabac shop and get a recharge voucher. Follow the prompts, right? Easy, right? Nod your head violently<\/i>.
\nHa ha ha young bison. As if it were going to be THAT<\/b> easy…
\nFirst of all, all the documentation is in Francais. Second of all, when you activate the SIM, you only get one choice of language, Francais. And when you go into the service menu, it’s all in le feu-rapide Francais.<\/i> Which renders me useless (my Francais skills being high school French many many years ago).
\nPlease keep in mind my experience in Asia with prepaid SIM cards. First of all they are multilingual. Second, it’s not as expensive and Third, English is one of the options! So the way they do it in France was a bit of a cold water shower.
\nEventually the lady who runs the place was able to help me reload, but not until 20 minutes passed. Now I’m late for lunch and by the time I find them, they’re ready to leave because I couldn’t respond to their SMS\/VMs because I had no credit.
\nAnd to top it off, it started to rain in ernest AND the food was so-so for lunch.
\nIt does get better after this though, right? Of course it does…this is Paris you know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is Andrew and Ellen’s last day in Paris. They fly out early in the morning tomorrow. Yeech. Ellen still has some things she wants to do so the morning was for them to do stuff while I woke up and located where the Musee de la Police was. We decided to meet up for … <\/p>\n