Happy New Year!

I started off by taking the metro to the Arc de Triomphe, but realized that I was there two hours early with nothing to do but shiver, so I walked down the Champs and took a metro to Trocadero. Very pretty but cold way to ring in the New Year. 

The ride home was quite an adventure. I walked down to the Bir Hakeim stop, thinking it might be easier to get on, but instead stood on a crush in a platform watching one or two people get shoved into the cars each time one arrived. I couldn't even back up for about 45 minutes. It was madness, and I kept waiting for either someone to fall onto the tracks or the platform to collapse. On young man passed out briefly, and it was quite a problem just getting him off to the side. I eventually made my way out of the station and walked home. Other than the ride home, though, a good day. I think I'll take tomorrow off and concentrate on writing up my notes.