Day 2 Madness
Last night, June 20, my family and I drove from Charle de Gaulle airport to a little town outside of Paris called Bourges. It is so so so so cute and exactly what you think a french town would look like. We stayed in the Hotel de Bourbon - Mercure de Bourges. There is nothing like doing your morning run in a french park/garden. The French have a particular pride in their public recreation spots. This park that I ran in was paved with yellow stones, had neatly manicured hedges and not a peice of trash in sight. It somewhat reminded me of the gardens in Buckingham Palace. After my run, I showered and went into town with my parents and Kai to La Cathédral de Bourges (completed in 1230 and became a UNESCO heritage site in 1992) which was absolutely gorgeous both inside and out!
Then, we went into town to get cellphone SIM cards which was definitely trying to my patience. Just a warning, cell phone companies are a pain to deal with, no matter what language you communicate in. When going back and forth to different companies to see what policies fit best to our desire of a calling and data SIM, I was the only one who could talk to the representatives because my parents only know how to say "hi" and "goodbye" in french. So, I went to the Orange store and told the woman at the till, that I needed a SIM card with 5G of data and calling, but she said that they didn't sell them which sounded very fishy because I had done some research before I arrived in France. She then told me to go to the FNAC (an electronics department store in France), but they didn't have nano-sized SIM cards for my iPhone 6, so I then went back to Orange because an employee at FNAC told me that they would sell those cards, but the Orange people told us to go to Bouygues Telecom (another major cellphone company) and ask if they had what we wanted. After 3 hours of searching, they had the closest option of all the stores that we tried.
***The winner: Bouygues Telecom with 2G of data and €25 calling credit, for €40***
After an exhausting 2nd day, I was so happy to crawl into my cot.
Then, we went into town to get cellphone SIM cards which was definitely trying to my patience. Just a warning, cell phone companies are a pain to deal with, no matter what language you communicate in. When going back and forth to different companies to see what policies fit best to our desire of a calling and data SIM, I was the only one who could talk to the representatives because my parents only know how to say "hi" and "goodbye" in french. So, I went to the Orange store and told the woman at the till, that I needed a SIM card with 5G of data and calling, but she said that they didn't sell them which sounded very fishy because I had done some research before I arrived in France. She then told me to go to the FNAC (an electronics department store in France), but they didn't have nano-sized SIM cards for my iPhone 6, so I then went back to Orange because an employee at FNAC told me that they would sell those cards, but the Orange people told us to go to Bouygues Telecom (another major cellphone company) and ask if they had what we wanted. After 3 hours of searching, they had the closest option of all the stores that we tried.
***The winner: Bouygues Telecom with 2G of data and €25 calling credit, for €40***
After an exhausting 2nd day, I was so happy to crawl into my cot.
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