Travelers and tourists, in a sense are like foreign exchange traders active and always on wheels. While the former actually run in search of new places, based on information, the latter sit tightly before the computer and update their information and news on financial and economic variables impinging on exchange rate, interest rate and stock prices. They are also in a hurry, while moving around.
While going to famous Lourdh museum, or Versailles palace, at Paris there is no problem of identification as there is always a crowd in a train, moving towards that destination- I was amongst two Chinese doctors, an young German girl and two old Holland ladies . The train was supposed to go to Versailles in a particular direction.
But all of a sudden, the direction had been changed and the announcement was in French language. I don’t remember whether the same thing was told in German and English language. Somehow, we got the news and as a reflex action, got down at the next halt, Boulanvilliers.
We could not get the connecting train immediately to go the station nearby, Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel from which we were supposed to take another train going towards Versailles-Rive-Gauche. For the first time we had to wait for more than one hour, which was quite unusual. Perhaps some repair work was going on elsewhere or I was not sure what caused that impasse. There was more time to interact with others- When I asked the Chinese doctors about the field of their specialization, another Chinese girl, who was more like a translator / interpreter, good in both Chinese and French language, explained to me some thing by sheer body language. Glancing at the lady doctor, who was looking like a college girl, she was gesticulating with her hand moving/rolling over her belly two times, to convey the message that she was gynecologist.
While going to famous Lourdh museum, or Versailles palace, at Paris there is no problem of identification as there is always a crowd in a train, moving towards that destination- I was amongst two Chinese doctors, an young German girl and two old Holland ladies . The train was supposed to go to Versailles in a particular direction.
But all of a sudden, the direction had been changed and the announcement was in French language. I don’t remember whether the same thing was told in German and English language. Somehow, we got the news and as a reflex action, got down at the next halt, Boulanvilliers.
We could not get the connecting train immediately to go the station nearby, Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel from which we were supposed to take another train going towards Versailles-Rive-Gauche. For the first time we had to wait for more than one hour, which was quite unusual. Perhaps some repair work was going on elsewhere or I was not sure what caused that impasse. There was more time to interact with others- When I asked the Chinese doctors about the field of their specialization, another Chinese girl, who was more like a translator / interpreter, good in both Chinese and French language, explained to me some thing by sheer body language. Glancing at the lady doctor, who was looking like a college girl, she was gesticulating with her hand moving/rolling over her belly two times, to convey the message that she was gynecologist.
About the other doctor, who looked like an actor, she again she again showed by bodily gesture: Like a butcher cutting the parts of a goat on a platform with a knife, meaning that he was a surgeon. The way in which she acted, and articulated with all sense of humor conveyed a message to me that the Chinese were really enjoying the freedom of France , smelling the air of romance and they were all in a relaxed state. I don’t know to what degree they have the freedom of expression and enjoy democratic rights in their native soil and while practicing their medical profession. But their behavior was typically western and they must have craved for this kind of liberty in their heart while operating under politically suffocating environment of China.
The old ladies from Holland were in good spirits. It was a day of occasional drizzles. The Sun was playing hide and seek game. After a long wait we got the connecting train and then in a matter of less than 30 – 40 minutes, we were at the Versailles palace station
There is always a cordiality and unconditional friendship and warmth among Pakistani people and Indians, or for that matter between Chinese and Americans and others and our people. Then who creates Berlin Wall among them? At any point of time, the politicians do construct and deconstruct the enemy image about other nations. The U.S. has specialized in that art for long, dividing nations, intervening in others, in the name of containing terrorism or establishing democracy. China, with all the newly acquired image of upcoming super power, sitting on a Dollar mountain, wants to do its own mischief and extends all tacit support and strategic assistance to checkmate India. We shall deal with it later.
The old ladies from Holland were in good spirits. It was a day of occasional drizzles. The Sun was playing hide and seek game. After a long wait we got the connecting train and then in a matter of less than 30 – 40 minutes, we were at the Versailles palace station
There is always a cordiality and unconditional friendship and warmth among Pakistani people and Indians, or for that matter between Chinese and Americans and others and our people. Then who creates Berlin Wall among them? At any point of time, the politicians do construct and deconstruct the enemy image about other nations. The U.S. has specialized in that art for long, dividing nations, intervening in others, in the name of containing terrorism or establishing democracy. China, with all the newly acquired image of upcoming super power, sitting on a Dollar mountain, wants to do its own mischief and extends all tacit support and strategic assistance to checkmate India. We shall deal with it later.
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