A little bit of exciting news, a short way into my long holiday around Europe — we’re in Paris for an extra day due to widespread strikes and protests regarding new labor legislation. Our flight to Spain was scheduled for tomorrow morning, but in addition to the entire Parisian metro being shut down, Ryanair e-mailed today to say our flight was cancelled thanks to the protests/strikes. Luckily, we were able to reschedule for Wednesday morning and we’re staying at the flat of a friend of Brian’s (which, by the way, is ridiculously nice, in an incredible location about two blocks from the Louvre, and costs a whopping 1900 Euros a month — approx. $2277). The upshot, too, is that we’ll have the chance to see a little history in action – these protests are very large, universities have been shut down for weeks, and French students have a reputation for protests in the last half century — not to mention France’s notorious history of revolution.