A few years ago my wife Julie and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary with a romantic weekend break in Paris. It was a scorching, dry summer and the entire city felt as hot as a blast furnace. Both being fair-skinned Brits we found this quite tiring, and returned each day to our small private hotel to rest before heading out again to enjoy the nightlife.
On our second day we got back to the hotel in the early afternoon, and walked into our room to find that the chambermaid hadn't quite finished her duties. She was African, probably in her early 30s, with very dark skin, hair cropped close to her skull and a not particularly attractive round face with a large flat nose and pock-marked cheeks, caused by acne or some other ailment in her youth. (Not that I'm any oil painting, with a broken nose and weighing thirty pounds more than I'd like to.) However, when I first walked into that room I must admit I barely noticed the woman's face.
As she leaned over the bed to make it up I got a glimpse down her cotton overall, and realised that she was stark naked beneath it, her small breasts clearly visible and a hint of something darker between her legs! Clearly flustered by our arrival she said something apologetic in French (I barely speak a word of the language) and scurried out of the room. As she passed close by me in the tiny room I caught a whiff of her scent β a mixture of cheap perfume and sweat, which I found surprisingly arousing β and noticed she wore a badge on her lapel bearing her name, Christiane. I also noticed that, despite being basically quite thin, she had a very large arse, something I've always found attractive.
Two days later, our last day in Paris, Julie decided that instead of returning to the room she wanted to spend the afternoon shopping. After three days of rushing around the hot, dusty streets of the city seeing the sights I didn't find the prospect of traipsing round expensive, snooty department stores an attractive one. I therefore feigned a bad headache and made my way alone back to our hotel, with Julie saying she would be back at about six o'clock to get ready for dinner.