Morning: breakfast, more walk, more Paris

• St Dominique a Maubourg
• Champs-Elysees a Concorde (Obelisk) Rivoli
• Rivoli a Les Halles
• other side of Louvre

stop at Cybercadric jabber orgfe Paris

Metro: use green chit, wait no, ushered through gate use green chit to exit ?, bother someone bother someone else use same chit again to (enter/exit?) get to stairs towards train bays... find Eurostar trains, Depature board doesn't say which bay hang out around trains until 20 min before train.. bother someone Where is Eurostar terminal? Upstairs.... ?! find stairs, queue for checkin at 10 min til helpful Eurostar staff filter me out, herd me into passport control, security, gate closed use this gate open onto balcony with two doors and one doorway on each side fellow victim equally confused.. bother someone points to 17 on pavement, points toward front of train walk onward board at about car 12 on urging of people on platform walk through train to car 2, bumping into dozens of people help young (Fr?) girls put luggage up on shelf collapse forage bother random powerbook operator en route fiddle with Public, apt, E, scilab fail to Airport network with random powerbook operator fail to find tolkien mp3 local ?! eat sandwich, crisps, drink orangina nap

wrong (Tube) train from Waterloo walk across to opposite platform, wrong tube from Kennington ibid, wrong Tube train from Oval, but catch District at Bank.. wait for a short eternity at putney Br. for 265 bus.. as usual gaggle of Italians

missed dinner, no hot dogs at belfry (because of cookout dinner) carbs, starch (remarkable similarity to dinner last night) pub -> disco, flight sausage pasty and tea from vending machines / one armed bandits unpack, key in this

luggage: this bag fairly sucks wheels too small, no balance handle flimsy, hard on hand (rough edge across top of right palm) not designed for use outside of airport and hotel luggage salesman on R St Dominique showed me some better bags an expandable one (pocket zips out to increase/decrease volume) with nice big (2"? dia, 1 1/2 wide ? )) wheels a versatile one: handles on two sides one backpack strap (hideable) shoulder strap (detachable) nice big wheels (ibid?) only 55 Euros ;) "I'll have to check with the banker" I might have had 55 Euro left then (I dunno what the balance is right now..) but can't really spend it on luggage, and how the hell would I get it home anyway (I already have too much to pack back up, and a small crate's worth that I may ship .. *sigh* Good to know the design flaws of that bag have been overcome / are not common Like to buy two, and try to improve on one needs motor -> self propelled needs throttle/control considering ballast tubes/ pouches reminds me on Odyssey of the Mind project in High School ...