chapter thirteen - paris by the time we reachedparis , ihad had enough of thirteenth-century travel to last me easily the rest of four lifetimes , and though i 'd been dazzled repeatedly by a thousand unusual sights , from the dizzying , tightly packed half-timbered houses of london , to the spectacle of norman castles on varying hilltops , and the never-ending snow falling upon village and town through which i passed , we were intent only on reaching godwin and laying the case before him .