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Adventures Past #2: "Goodbye White Cliffs"

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# "I am an opera singer,  I sing in foreign lands...  I've sung for Kings in Europe... and emperors in Japan!" - Cake # 10 years ago I was fortunate enough to be able to take a 2-month break from "my day job"  at the time and embark on an epic trip around Europe... My travelling companion was the person who little did I realise then would one day become my wife, and we were travelling with the Busabout network . I wrote a collection of articles en route and sent them back home to the Northern Cross newspaper  via small net cafes all around Europe... These are those scribbles from the humble pen of a wannabe European correspondent... (C.G.Allan, Summer 2013) (Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin - Sunday 15th of June, 2003 to Tuesday 24th June, 2003) Our European adventure has begun!  We began in Paris where we stayed in the Montmarte area.  It Montmarte was where one of our favourite films was set... was rush hour when we arrived and