4/5 May - Paris again

So no sooner am I returned from Algiers but I am in the air again. This time it was back to Paris for another committee meeting. The meeting was in offices in the 9th District so the travel was the usual pattern of a mid-afternoon flight Vienna-Paris and the train and metro to a small hotel near Bd. Hausmann. The distant, but distinct, rumbling of the metro passing beneath the hotel every few minutes was not really disturbing. But as no-smoking rooms were only on the first floor I just had to put up with it. At least the hotel had wifi so it was a case of a quick supper and then back to work.

In the morning it was a short stroll to the meeting and a chance to meet up wth my colleagues from the committee again. On the way there was good view of Sacre Coeur in the distance. But too early for the shops......



The discussions were all in French, but as the two previous trips had been French speaking I am getting used to it! A long day at work but progress was made.A time to say goodbye to the others and then the trek back by metro and train to the CDG airport and the late Austrian flight home to Vienna. Because of the timing with the meeting due to finish at 5 pm and the planes being at 7 and 8.30 pm I have to book the later flight in case of any overrun in the meeting or delay on the metro and train. Sure enough this time we ended spot on time but the trains had a few delays. Result - I arrived in the airport just too late for the 7 pm flight but with 90 minutes to wait for my flight - the joys of modern air travel. Still we arrrived back in Vienna on time and I was home by 2315.