Another Adventure Downtown

I needed to go downtown to change my ferry tickets to Tunis. So a friend and I waited at the nearest bus stop (that we saw on the internet still had buses, remember the transit strike) for over 25 minutes. After talking to a few people that passed by, we decided it would be faster to walk the 25 minutes to the nearest metro station and then take the metro downtown. Which is what we did. Once we got on the metro it took us 10 minutes to get downtown. Then we walked about 20 more minutes until we found the office building we needed.

We ended up walking into the wrong door, talked to a travel agent who led us into another section of the office and walked us right up to the counter where another lady helped us. If we hadn't made that mistake we would've had to wait in a long line. The first lady (travel agent) also had to explain to the ticket lady how to do the changes, because at first she told us that she couldn't do it. The travel agent stood there and argued with her and told her how to change the ticket. So if we hadn't walked in that wrong door in the first place...well, I'm not sure how things would have turned out. Other good news--I had to pay a lot less for upgrading my ticket than I anticipated! Yay!

Then we had a few minutes to spare so we shopped in a couple Asian market stores. I bought a BUNCH of rice noodles (I'm allergic to wheat pasta), powdered coconut milk (Satay curries!) and a sweet rice dessert.

Then we headed home on the metro and walked to the office. A morning's work complete our task accomplished...even if we couldn't use the bus. And now, France's national train line is on strike, so trains all across the country have been delayed or cancelled. Loving it!