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-title: "Week 9, Sunday:"
+title: "Week 9, Sunday: Charles de Gaulle"
 date: 2024-09-29T21:55:00+02:00
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+Good morning, Sunday! Yesterday's night on the town in south-western Paris took a tole on our group.
+Most of us are still sleeping it off, and I as well wake up fashionably late at 10:00. I decide that
+I've been hanging out on the couch horizontally for long enough and I fold up the bed. I brush my
+teeth with a bottle of Jack and make coffee. I think the sound or perhaps the smell of coffee has
+stimulated the gang just enough to wake up also.
+
+Cl&eacute;ment reveals himself and says he has to quickly go outside. He reappears fifteen minutes
+later with freshly baked goods. By this time, Alarig has plopped himself on the couch and drinks a
+coffee with me. Only Sven still remains in `/dev/null`. We talk about tech: how IXPs are formed, who
+peers and who doesn't, the cool Juniper central MX204 paired with remote switch 'blades', and
+Cl&eacute;ment conjures one up. Along the way, I lazily write my journal from yesterday.
+
+Sven joins us at noon or so, and we continue to babble on about people, companies, the formation of
+Hivane, IPng, BreizhIX, FrysIX, and more. It's fun learning a bit about my "far west" (France) and
+the "far west" in France (Rennes, where BreizhIX is). But, at 13:37 I have gained as much tactical
+intelligence as I could, so I decide to take my leave. Thank you Cl&eacute;ment for the wonderful
+stay!
+
+I took an Uber from the airport to the city, but I'm definintely taking a train back - it's both
+cheaper but more importantly, it's much faster. Punching in CDG in maps, I find that there's a B
+metro that goes from the Catacombs at _Denfert Rochereau_ direct to the airport. Slick! The train
+ride is easy going and I arrive at _Charles de Gaulle_ at around 14:30.
+
+I do see that there's another Swiss flight to Zurich, maybe I can switch to that one? But alas, it's
+delayed by 2.5hrs already, scheduled now at 17:30, whoops. The flight crew is also sitting on the
+chairs, but I see that they eventually leave. And yes, thirty minutes later, the flight is simply
+canceled, so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be on it :)
+
+I end up watching a few episodes of _Lilyhammer_ and eat a sandwich. I made a small mistake thinking
+there would be a larger concourse here, but the gates I'm at are divided into blocks of ten, with
+security right at the block, so there's gates 60-69 here, with one sandwich shop and one dutyfree
+liquor and cigarette joint, and that's ... it. No bars, no warm meal, nothing. But, there's a power
+outlet so my laptop will save me through this hardship.
+
+One full season of _Lilyhammer_ later, I board LX645 to Zurich. The flight is only 46 minutes, which
+I think is pretty cool, and Marina is here to pick me up from the airport, just as I walk out the
+door. We drive home and chat about the last few days, and about all the french I learned and all
+the frenchmen I met, and the fun we've had.
+
+I have to get to bed early tonight though, because (a) I am running a sleep deficit and (b) tomorrow
+Tim arrives on the sleeper-train from Amsterdam at 08:00.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
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+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-29/IMG_1688.JPG" caption="A selfie with Alarig on Cl&eacute;ment's couch in Paris, France." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-29/IMG_1689.JPG" caption="The train from the (14th) arrondissement de l'Observatoire to CDG is direct, and that's really nice" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-29/IMG_1691.JPG" caption="The Embraer 195-E2 that brought me to Zurich in 46 minutes" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-29/IMG_1692.JPG" caption="At home, I notice this sunshine on the TV. Marina and Quinn were taking bets on how many weeks it would take for me to notice her, but the answer was: 0 weeks. Hah!" >}}
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