Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
I know how you feel. Way back in the summer of 1989 a friend of mine and I had to queue for at least an hour to get in to the Grand Palais (or it might have been the Petit Palais) in Paris to view the Gaugin exhibition. Fortunately there was a a van selling cold drinks parked nearby, so one of us would toddle off to buy drinks, whilst the other would keep our place in the queue. Having a good book to read helped, and the temperature was nowhere near as hot as it is now.
No doubt the cold drinks van man was chucking the exhibition staff a few Francs to 'go slow'