Paris Diary - Bad Travel Karma and Matching Coats

When I was filing away my Paris pictures from a few weeks ago, I came across a travel diary I kept of Kate's and my visit last November, so here for your reading pleasure....

Paris Diary, Nov 5

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Barbara - bad travel karma continues - traveling companion shows up wearing the SAME jacket. Now we have to go all over Paris looking like not-too-imaginative lesbians....

Andrew  -You need to upgrade to imaginative lesbians

Murray  - Say away from my fantasies

I always have bad travel karma, or to put in more precisely, my trips always start off badly, once I’m at my destination the first day under my belt, thing usually pick up quite nicely. This one began the morning I was to leave when one of my diamond earrings fell down the drain of the bathroom sink. You just know the day is going to go downhill from there.

Having got to the airport more or less in tact, leaving kids and husband at security, I decided to get a manicure at the gate, my usual pre-travel treat, and the manicurist cut my cuticle so badly we had to staunch the blood. Karma, bad or otherwise has some sort of celestial timing of its own, my travel companion, Kate, showed up at that very moment wearing the EXACT SAME jacket as me. Great, we get to spend a week walking around Paris looking like a pair of not too imaginative lesbians.