Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

• 2 Expresso Coffees: 7 EUR
• 1 Beer: 7.50 EUR
• 1 Hot chocolate: 5.80 EUR
• Spending time with old friends priceless.

There are things money can't buy, for the rest, there is still....

So during this trip, I did:

Friday evening, I went to have Guinness with some former coworker, talking shop and al. Right after, I went to met dodji and his s.o. Juliette, toady and his s.o. (whose name I forgot and apologize for that) and teuf, to have diner at "Le père fouettard" where I ended up seeing, by I pure random coincidence, Ol a former Apple co-worker and his s.o, sh from Debian and Videolan fame, and bbp (friend of Videolan). We talked GNOME and other thing around some French platers.

Saturday: met with some old friends, went to have crêpes and cidre breton (Cider, Britany receipe), then off to Pub Saint-Germain on Boulevard Saint-Germain. See the bill above. I also took some nitght shots of Notre Dame that I will post later.

By this beautiful afternoon of February I sit in a VIARail train headed towards Montréal, at the Ottawa train station. (photo from behind the car window)

Going through the snow south-eastern Ontario Country and south-western, I finally reach my final destination, Montréal Pierre-E-Trudeau airport, aka YUL, aka Dorval Airport. The name is funny as Trudeau initiated the creation of an international airport in Mirabel, aimed at replacing Dorval, far north of Montréal, but funnily the Dorval Airport was renamed after Trudeau's name in 2004. I end up waiting in the new internatonal terminal, waiting to board onto AF 347 flight headed to CDG, France.

Things I learned: free electricity for your laptop in the terminal lounge, but expensive wifi service. Neither the seats nor the video system of Air France A340 aircrafts in Tempo (economy) class are suited for tall people like me.

I'm now in Paris for 2 days.