Ep II - Jennifer’s Chunnel Press Release
The English Channel, 1st March, 2016
Before we resume our regularly scheduled programming, Jennifer would like me to share her adventure anecdotes.
So backtrack to the hipster cafe. Coffee brews. Hipsters work. It’s fricken cold. They’re playing Hip Hop classics - Jay-Z, Nas, Cypress Hill. Jen goes in there; happy to cheerful as she usually is and hears a song she recognises (I’ve been training her). She engages me in a little bop dance she does along to ’99 Problems’. The barista sees her doing it and laughs out loud - his usual stoic English reserve demolished. Jennifer despairingly explains the backstory. The barista doesn’t believe her when she says that her boyfriend is the bigger hip hop fan. His exact words, through bearded grin are “but you’re the one dancing.” : )
Whilst we’re there, she goes on an incredible hip-hop aficionado three-peat, recognising additionally both Insane in the Membrane and and Yeezy’s Niggas in Paris. Clearly, I am an incredible teacher and she an attentive student.
Later in the day she decides to run her signature hustle on me - which is to say that she stops to ogle at shoes or food without letting me know so I walk way further on before I notice she’s missing. She goes further in her art of the disappearance with a variation - she gets on a different escalator to me, so that when I look for her she’s not there; then proceeds to make faces at me from the other escalator the whole way up.
Pretty cute, eh?
So I’m writing to you now on the Eurostar between London and Paris; it’s actually flown by so fast we were in France before I even noticed us entering a tunnel of any kind. It’s an overcast day as we past fields peppered with barns, carefully tended woods, windmills and power lines. Lovely despite the poor weather.
My phone alternates between ‘Nessun Servizie’ (no service) and Bouygues. I figure we’re pretty far out and farm trees don’t produce wifi signals. It’s not until we hit the outskirts of Roissy-en-France before I get any reception.
But we’re here now, bonjour Paris! Better off board and find ourselves - will get back to you all shortly.
