Thank you, Mrs. Marcoccia!

We'll never know why (we asked many times), but Ladakh was insanely popular with French travelers. I wonder if Le Monde's travel section came out with some big story on the wonders of Ladakh, or if some French celebrities came through (we did learn that Richard Gere spent some time at Phugtol Gompa). At any rate, it seemed that at least half the tourists we met along the way were from la belle France. And, sharpening a very old saw in my bag of tricks, I got to bust out my high school French education. I actually managed to have a pretty lengthy conversation with an older Parisian woman who was very impressed with my language skills. She specifically said that I must've had an excellent teacher-so here's a shout out to Madame Marcoccia--if I were back in Ardsley, I'd buy her a diet coke.