From: "Brian Pawlowski" <beepy@netapp.com>
To: <living@msnbc.com>
Subject: Shoot, I'll buy you a round trip ticket to Paris! Plus hotel?
Date: Friday, June 30, 2000 7:16 PM

To Jim Washburn.

So, I enjoyed your article.

You've never been to Paris?  Or anywhere in France?

Shoot, I'll buy you a ticket.  And pay for your hotel - but I travel
aggressively light - Rick Steves philosophy and all that.  More fun
being in the thick of things.

I was just in Marais where McDonalds pulled out.  It is a very nice area
- I think, personally (though I like Big Macs) that a McDonalds in
Marais would be disconcerting.

I guess I have occassionally eaten at a McDonalds?  When out of the US.
Oh yeah, I live in Amsterdam (the whole Pulp Fiction thing less the
blood).  The food here is rather, challenging.  Suffice it to say that
my wife and I fly 45 minutes to Paris for weekends sometimes just to
eat.  Anyway, yeah, McDonalds in The Netherlands is sometimes not a bad
thing.

So, two serious things.

One, killing people by bombing McDonalds is a no-no.  (non-non?)

Two, if you want to go to Paris and other parts, I will pay.  It would
be cute.  Only catch is you will be with my son - it would be
educational to watch (for him and me).  You can do France on a low
budget.

Last two weeks of July are good (after July 13 - until July 28).  Or
later?  Let me know.  I would love to see a newbie in France.

Brian Pawlowski