{"id":1190,"date":"2006-12-26T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T16:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/26\/the-more-you-travel-the-more-you-learn\/"},"modified":"2015-04-26T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T17:15:57","slug":"the-more-you-travel-the-more-you-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/26\/the-more-you-travel-the-more-you-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"The more you travel, the more you learn."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Like, for instance, that the really <em>nice<\/em> terminals at most international airports are saved for flights and\/or airlines that are truly international.  Upon leaving Paris, I decided to come to Charles de Gaulle airport a bit early, both because I needed to leave the city in the middle of evening rush hour and because, from my past experience flying through CDG, it has some pretty good shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently it&#8217;s some other terminal that has really good shopping (like, perhaps the one I transferred through when flying home from Prague a few years ago), because the extent of shopping at Terminal 3 consists of one duty free shop that consists of nothing but perfume, cigarettes and alcohol, and a bar.  So that&#8217;ll teach me to get to the airport three hours early.  Even though this is technically an international flight, it&#8217;s pretty much treated as domestic.  I don&#8217;t go through customs, I don&#8217;t get my passport stamped, and we get to wait at the terminal that&#8217;s less sophisticated than Teterboro.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so&#8230;the trip.  The trip was awesome.  I didn&#8217;t get to see everything I wanted, because I was only really in town for three days, one of which was Christmas (when everything was, obviously, closed), but I have <em>finally<\/em> fallen in love with Paris.  It only took ten years and three trips, but I finally get it.  I finally understand what other people had been saying all of these years.  Paris is just&#8230;beautiful.  Even when everything is closed, I could just walk for miles (and I did) admiring the outsides of buildings.  This trip has all but erased for me the bad memories of that trip ten years ago.  I haven&#8217;t even left yet, and I want to come back again.  Maybe when it&#8217;s a little warmer, but definitely, I need to come back again.  And again.<\/p>\n<p>When I get back to Milan, I&#8217;ll post some pictures (and also this entry, as I&#8217;m not paying for wifi at the airport).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really glad I took this trip though.  I had been debating maybe going to London instead, because I <em>know<\/em> London, but then I thought I should give Paris another chance.  And it was well worth it (even though my feet have pretty much rebelled at this point).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like, for instance, that the really nice terminals at most international airports are saved for flights and\/or airlines that are truly international. 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