Champs Elysées and more

Another day working at yet another location. As I was working until 9 in the evening I did not have too much time afterwards. Also a funny thing happened. I stayed longer than all my colleagues and when I wanted to leave at 9, I was trapped. The door of the building was closed; I could not call the reception as the phone in the conference room nearby did not work. So I was hectically turning rounds trying to find someone in the office – no success. After about 10 minutes I bumped into a security guy, who - instead of shouting at me - simply helped me out of the building. But only after a 5 minute pantomime session as he did not speak French and my French vocabulary relating to getting outside the building (Accueil & Auxerre) failed miserably. So I followed him hoping he understood where I wanted to go. As we took a route via the underground labyrinth of the site some weird movies flashed in front of my eyes – walking through many corridors I was VERY relived as we ended up at reception where I gladly gave back my visitors badge and left the building. The funny thing was that about an hour later I bumped into the same guy in the underground on my way home. C’est Creeeeepy ...

I was so relieved that I got out of the building that I walked many blocks already when I realised I wanted to take the underground home – and it was a lucky miss as I ended up at the Arc De Triomphe and so only a short walk on the Champs Elysées and an hour later did I go back home.