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Kind of Blue

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7. Indeed, exactly what I was thinking.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #3)

Tue May 28, 2019, 08:56 AM

May 2019

And I'm not even talking hotels but apartments. I was amazed by my host's behemoth of a dad pushing 70 at the time just breeze up flights and flights and flights of stairs. I was wheezing and pretty young then and he'd look back at me pitifully. Soon though the body got used to all them stairs in all those buildings. I don't know how I'd fare now though.

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Tales from Paris: our elevator gets stuck, a lot [View all] Recursion May 2019 OP

When babylonsister May 2019 #1

Neuilly-sur-Seine, technically Recursion May 2019 #2

I look forward babylonsister May 2019 #6

How come all the way out there? DFW May 2019 #11

I'm quite surprised there WAS an elevator... hlthe2b May 2019 #3

Indeed, exactly what I was thinking. Kind of Blue May 2019 #7

And this is why James48 May 2019 #4

Yup Recursion May 2019 #5

how do people move large furniture? IcyPeas May 2019 #8

I knew someone in Sprout City with that same problem. The solution was a bang you head solution DFW May 2019 #14

Ah, the stairs it is! Phentex May 2019 #9

I lived in an old building in Nice that was from the 1910s BigmanPigman May 2019 #10

Paris living OceanPete May 2019 #12

Mon dieu! elleng May 2019 #13