A taxi came for us at the Le Boat station around 9:45 and by 10:00 we were at the U-Drive office in Beziers. The name of the place was 'The Arrogant Frog Rental Car Company'. Or that should have been the name. The male attendant was rude, arrogant, made no attempt to be of help to us and made no attempt at all to accommodate us in English even though Alyssa was doing her very best to to be polite and communicate with the jerk.
He made some attempts to change the navigation system to English speaking and then gave up.
Dave is the designated driver and Alyssa is the navigator. We are just along for the ride. Driving in France is quite civil but you have to keep up with the crowd. We made it to the Train Station where our printed voucher was exchanged for four proper tickets that will be needed three days from now when we get the Train from Beziers to Montpellier for two nights.
After that it was a merry walk into up and around the city where it was a typical French city and full of French people oddly enough. We enjoyed a drink and a lunch and started the stroll back to Le Car by Le Train Station.
A zippy drive back to Le Boat after a quick stop at a French Supermarket that really is a super market.
We had an afternoon at leisure, at least Fellette and I did and Dave and Alyssa also had theirs by going on a bike ride to Le Sea.
Not much in the way of photos today. Tomorrow we head for Narbonne, a bit further afar than Beziers, heading to Spain.
Photo 1. Last night, pizza for dinner.
Photo 2. Monument to those lost at Verdun in WWI.
Photo 3. Street market on a downtown or uptown street.
Photo 4. A photo of a building that I have absolutely no idea what it is or was.
Photo 5. A street poster showing the beauty of the city in some magical way.
Photo 6. Mon Cherie in the park on our walk back to Le Car.
Please excuse my cynicism but I am truly amazed at the lack of any attempts to make foreign visitors understand anything about where they are going or what they are seeing. Ces't le vie.
The internet does not like my photos and usually drops some.
I wonder what the internet will do to this blog? Yesterday's went twice, one incomplete and I got a third copy in some garbled form.
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