Wow, what a sleep!!!
Down for breakfast at 7:45 where Dave and Alyssa joined us a bit later. The coffee was heavenly, my oh my, how we love and missed a good cup of coffee in the morning.
I believe Dave and Alyssa did a bit of a wander about again, as we did later, much later. We just felt like relaxing and lounging in the peace and tranquility of a small, clean room to try and put together the thoughts and recollections of the last 19 days. That is impossible at this time.
Fellette and I have had the opportunity to have have several "Trips of a lifetime" in the last 30 years or so. There is much to see yet in this great and wonderful world that has escaped our eyes. But the more we travel the harder it is to be swept off our feet, unfortunately. In cities around the world, beautiful and pleasurable, for sure, but one can only have so much of beautiful sidewalk cafes and people watching. Or at least I can and Fellette expresses the same.
It is rather like watching the Ed Sullivan show some 40 or 50 years ago. For the first few years it was all new and never-seen-before stuff, but as it went on we subconsciously compared to previous shows (or experiences). Same for a beautiful city like Montpellier, lovely but oh so familiar.
Now, life on a canal boat in France was absolutely something that we have never experienced before and likely will have no urge nor need to relive it.
Around noon we did venture out into the streets of this part of town and to our amazement we were closer to civilization than we thought. Yesterday's stroll was so not where we thought we were.
There are some strange things that happen in France, or here at least. Now this is Saturday, right? The restaurant area was open for lunch until 2:00. We were looking for a place to possibly have dinner but five of the six places that we checked were "not open on Saturday night". Damn Napoleon!
In reality, we are off to bed early tonight, long travel day ahead tomorrow.
We bought tonight's dinner and were shortly back at the hotel where we had lunch, again in our room. Dave and Alyssa came down for a catch-up and a drink and then they tumbled off to their own space to prepare for a 4:00 am wake up for the 5:00 am taxi to the airport to start the 20 hour journey to Vancouver airport. At least we hope it only takes 20 hours!
The schedule says we land in Vancouver at at 1:50 pm on Sunday. If we get on the plane from Amsterdam we have a good chance of being on time. In the meantime, we have France to get through! (Sorry, I could just not resist that final jab at the Gaul.) Is that how you spell gall?
No breathtaking photos for us today, just delighted to be here in reasonably good shape.
My brother is now driving to Venice and has another six days before he and Janet are in Vancouver. Good friends Jim and Gail are at sea on the way to Corsica, (nice place) and have another 19 days before they arrive back in the USA.
Not sure if there will be a blog tomorrow or not, it depends on many things. Thanks for joining us.
Photos are of us relaxing and having a real leisure day; bringing home dinner; fresh food is the mainstay in French cuisine I would say, this is fish and shellfish; Dave in our room for a visit and a last glass of wine together; last decadent tarte for dessert, we split it.
Thanks for taking us on your journey Doug - It was very interesting indeed..... Rod
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