29: Sugar

"Ah great, dessert" Wufei frowned at the huge bowl of ice cream the waiter put in front of Sally. Was she really going to eat all that? They'd just had a full dinner. The cup of coffee the waiter put in front of Wufei seemed ridiculously small compared to her final dish. "So, tell me again about that plan of Duo's." Sally said, once the waiter left.

"He wants to go backpacking through Europe." Said Wufei. "He has lined up a couple of things for sightseeing and he wants to go from one place to another by public transportation. If he'd had a year instead of just three weeks he would have visited them all by foot."

"By foot?" She chuckled in-between bites. "That's a lot of walking. Europe's not small."

"I know. I really don't see why anyone would want to walk that far when they can just use modern forms of transportation."

"Still, it sounds cool." Sally said in return. "Europe has some pretty amazing sights. The old capitals alone have a history rich enough to keep you busy for days. You know what I'd love to see some day? Sagrada Familia, the church in Barcelona. They only finished it a hundred years ago, but they started building it in the nineteenth century. It's supposed to be quite an impressive building."

"Really?" Wufei frowned, taking a sip from his coffee. "I didn't know that." It sounded a lot more interesting than those ghost stories Duo talked about.

"Or the Eiffel tower." Sally continued. "It was meant to be there only for an exposition, but it was so impressive they just left it there."

"I did know that." Wufei nodded. "I visited the Eiffel tower a couple of years ago, when I was on training for preventers in France."

"Too bad Berlin was bombarded in the war." Sally said and paused to swallow another bite of ice cream. "Not many of their historical buildings survived."

Wufei watched her quietly as he sipped his coffee. If he could convince Duo to add some cultural history that he was interested in, the backpacking idea might not be such a bad one after all.


-princess