http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php Random Periodic Blog for Rayfes en http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:51:41 +0000 rayfes@rayfes.com rayfes@rayfes.com http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=25 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:51:41 +0000 General http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=25#cmt http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=24 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:03:19 +0000 General http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=24#cmt http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=15 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:11:57 +0000 General http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=15#cmt Link to all of the pictures

So I went to Nice, France for a week and was in LA for a week before that.  LA was really nice and it's always good to see close friends.

I flew from LA to New York on "Song" the low cost airline created by Delta.  I had never been on Song before but they seem to be trying to compete with the likes of Southwest, which I have traveled with a few times.  Song seems to be trying a little too hard though.  They played techno music during the beginning and end of the flight which was a little annoying.  No first class either, not that I ride up there often.  But they offer the only mile high martini bar but I still got the feeling that the flight attendants were told they had to be cheery.  I will say that the plane was fairly new and had a nice in-seat video system which included live satellite tv.  It was funny to watch it lose the signal as the plane banked and went through clouds.  My flight was made more pleasant by a fun couple in front of me that busted out some vodka.  What better way to start 13 hours of flight time?

I arrived in Nice early in the morning and had some minor trouble in the hotel.  My debit card wasn't working so I had to pay them cash for my entire week's stay.  That wiped out my pocket cash and I was glad I exchanged more dollars for Euros at the airport when the clerk kindly suggested that I could avoid a transaction fee if I converted more.  So now I'm practically broke with a debit card that doesn't seem to work.  What should I do?  How about go to the beach?  I might as well since I'm a block away.

Fortunately I didn't see any schlongs but there were a handful of dudes in speedos that I could have done without.  But all in all it was ok, the tougher thing to handle was the beach itself.  It was all large pebbles with no s ..]]> http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=3 Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:18:24 +0000 General http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=3#cmt ]]> http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=2 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:15:10 +0000 General http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=2#cmt and a powerful bbCode engine makes text formatting easy! Thats about posting in text mode, and now , if you ever need to make html posts, boastMachine gives you a feature rich WYSIWYG editor ! Good Luck and happy Blogging !]]> http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=1 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:58:22 +0000 General http://www.rayfes.com/blog/index.php?id=1#cmt