Fletcher Findley

My Highlights

Picnicking with my French host family, and my host sister laughing, kindly, as I butchered her language...getting lost in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery while looking for Jim Morrison's grave...tasting escargot for the first time in a restaurant facing the Notre Dame cathedral...spending three days on the beaches of Crete and meeting only Britons...watching the Paris Opera Ballet and dancing to exhaustion in an underground nightclub in the same evening...haggling over the price of a camel ride into the Moroccan Sahara in a language that five months previously I couldn't speak a word of...kissing my girlfriend goodbye on the platform at Gare du Nord, watching her train pull away, and spending the rest of the day on a bridge over the Seine, watching the boats troll back and forth.