how many times?

ok, so......today was my thursday day...at my loaner county.......and the discussion about my child's plane ticket brought up detaiuls about my life i really did not want to disclose....such as....'have you ever been out of the country?.....'.....yes.....'where to?'........'well, france, and switzerland, and belgium and holland and germany and austria and spain and england and wales amd leichtenstein'......'all at once?'........'well, no.....over several visits'.....so which was your favorite place....?'.......'paris, of course...'....'so how many times have you been to paris?'........at this point i knew that to tell the truth was just too much.....so i breezed through a rapid recitation of assorted family trips and school trips and friends trips......without actually adding up the segments flown.......or even owning up to the segments flown....but it was still enough that my thursday workmates looked at me with doubt......is she making this all up or telling the truth..................?..........not that it matters...but it does seem a bit far fetched to have folks that have never left these borders believe that somebody who works with them weekly has traveled to paris 11 times.....let alone without a real grasp of the language........