{"id":1189,"date":"2006-12-22T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/fortuitous-timing\/"},"modified":"2015-04-26T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T17:16:56","slug":"fortuitous-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/fortuitous-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortuitous timing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So, the NY Times travel section regularly does this little feature called "36 hours", where they visit a city for a weekend, and then essentially publish the itinerary, which consists of reviews as well as advice on what to see and what to skip when you’ve got limited time in a city. So earlier this week, I figured I’d see what they had listed for Paris. I’ll be there for more than 36 hours, but not much more when you discount Christmas Day, when I assume everything will be closed. But when I went searching on Monday, they hadn’t done one for Paris. Which kind of surprised me, but I set about printing out some of their other articles just to get myself oriented.<\/p>\n

So then, I click on the Times this morning, and yup, 36 Hours: Paris<\/a> was posted. It’s like they knew. At least now I’ve got my itinerary for the weekend (I’ll probably jumble things up a bit, and I’ve been to certain places before, so they get de-prioritized (not that I won’t fit them in if I’ve got time, but the Louvre can be a four day trip in itself).<\/p>\n

I’m off to go finish packing, and to figure out how I’m getting to the damn airport. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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