I guess i was lucky to be a student in Paris during part of that time instead of London. We got 1-Franc meals (25 cents US) at any University cafeteria including the Grand Palais. (of course it was probably the blandest food in Paris and no rentboys).
After the past two or three months of sky-high rates and incredible demand a couple friends tell me the market has gone down considerably the past week or so in Chicago, New York and DC. Maybe it's just the end of the month and maybe it's just them, but it would make sense the client stampede after re-opening would cool, especially after they spent all the money they saved up during the lockdown.
Of the BA crowd Fillip (Sexy-Phil) (Henrik Bjorn at BA) is back in Zurich working for the agent who keeps 30%. Pavel, Dominick, Roald Ekberg, Thom Jacobs etc used to all work there for him. Fillip (real name) has never worked Prague where he lives close to before the pandemic and i was hoping he'd stay. But he's never been too clever a businessman or promoter (tho he's a very sweet guy). Zurich's lucky.
https://www.romeo.com/hunq/ArmandoMarra
a pic i took:
“Stay local, do not congregate, don’t talk to your neighbours, please, keep to your bubble,”
Aus and NZ are still under 30% vaccinated? That's a horrible failure to appear in public much less say that.
I got an IKEA extra super firm that was marked down from 900 to 200 on line clearance and they ended up paying me after price guarantees. quality built like a Saab.
beware, you can too firm. i slowly developed back aches from the hardness over months.
update: Pavel spent a long weekend in Paris and made 5000 Euro ($6000) in 4 days. He's saying his rate will be 200E now. The hiring bender is still strong in Europe.