Three weeks in France
Typical pattern in a normal company: you have a week of vacation coming up, so you have to work 60 hours the week before it, and 60 hours the week after it.
In a startup, you're already working 60 hours a week, so the numbers just go up. Especially if the vacation is three weeks.
Anyway, so Deb and I spent a week in Paris. Our guidebook didn't mention how many stairs there are in the Metro stations. Had a great time, took lots of photos.
Then we picked up our rental car, and learned why the "free upgrade" ain't such a great deal: the larger car is harder to park and some of the towns have such narrow roadways that it's even harder to drive in some of them.
We drove through Chartres, to Amboise (2 days in a B&B), visiting Chateau Chenonceau; then south to stay a night each in Brive-la-Gaillard and Carcassonne; then two days in Barcelona to visit a good friend; and then back into France, for a night in Arles followed by several in another wonderful B&B southwest of Avignon; one night at a hotel on the beach in Cassis; and finally a nightmare drive through Marseille before the flight home.
Fantastic time! Despite having gotten back here on Friday the 12th, I'm currently still in the catching-up phase at work.
More details and over 4 Gigapixels of photos forthcoming at some point.
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