With time-based rail passes
(As many youths still do),
I caught the trains through Europe -
A good time it was, too.
But, late one night that summer,
I ran full-on in vain,
Through quiet streets in Paris,
To catch the London train.
And, at that Paris station,
They closed the doors throughout,
For cleaning through the morning,
Insisting - stragglers out.
So it was that a few of us
Spent the night on the street,
And, I do declare to you,
It left young me dead-beat.
Yet there are many stragglers,
Within the human domain,
Spending all their nights as such -
While others own a plane!
(C) David Franks 2003
Location on Google Maps (new tab)
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| Folks catching their train at Gare du Nord, & where I spent a night in 1988; 27/5/2023 |
Photos from other returns to Europe with my bridge-camera...
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| Barcelona's La Sagrada Família via Montjuïc Funicular; 29/5/18 |
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| Near Frankfurt Airport; 3/5/19 |
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| Rome's Trevi Fountain; 5/5/2019 |
