{"id":22983,"date":"2008-03-26T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/03\/26\/we-hope-you-enjoyed-this-bus-tour-of-charles-de-gaulle-international-airport\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T10:00:01","slug":"we-hope-you-enjoyed-this-bus-tour-of-charles-de-gaulle-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080326-01\/?p=22983","title":{"rendered":"We hope you enjoyed this bus tour of Charles de Gaulle International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My trip to Lisbon entailed a connection in Paris at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. So now, I&#8217;ve technically been to France, but since I never left the airport, I don&#8217;t think it really counts.\n (When I mentioned to one of my colleagues that I paid a brief visit to his native country, he replied, &#8220;I hope it went okay.&#8221; Off my confused expression, he continued: &#8220;I try to avoid changing planes in Paris. There is about a 30% chance that somebody will be on strike.&#8221;)\n When our flight landed, a series of buses arrived to take the passengers to the terminal. Or at least, that&#8217;s what we thought the bus was going to do. In fact, the bus took us on what appeared to be a grand tour of all the service areas of the airport. Look, the baggage sorting machine. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/whiteland.net\/jonathan\/pictures\/paris_2003\/Pages\/66.html\"> a building shaped like<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pand0ra23\/268163972\/\"> a wheel of cheese<\/a>. Over there, the food service trucks. Hey, didn&#8217;t we pass this building already?<\/p>\n<p> After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilligansisle.com\/theme.html\"> a three-hour tour<\/a> of the facilities, we finally stopped in front of the terminal. I was expecting an announcement over the speaker: &#8220;We hope you enjoyed this bus tour of Charles de Gaulle International Airport.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My trip to Lisbon entailed a connection in Paris at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. So now, I&#8217;ve technically been to France, but since I never left the airport, I don&#8217;t think it really counts. (When I mentioned to one of my colleagues that I paid a brief visit to his native country, he replied, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-22983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My trip to Lisbon entailed a connection in Paris at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. So now, I&#8217;ve technically been to France, but since I never left the airport, I don&#8217;t think it really counts. (When I mentioned to one of my colleagues that I paid a brief visit to his native country, he replied, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}