25th September Les Toulerons
Drove into Bleneau this morning to visit the street markets. (About 10 klms away) Firstly stopping by the tourist office in Rogny to speak to Elizabeth about our Paris visit. Would have to return as she had gone out.
All sorts of foods available here, great cheeses, breads, vegetables and some things that you would rather like to think that people don’t really eat! (But they do!) Heaps of goat cheeses available, but strangely enough we haven’t ever seen any goats out in the fields when we’ve been travelling around. Cows, horses, sheep but not goats. We’ll have to ask Elizabeth where they all are.
Marisa is arriving on Tuesday so we thought we should arrange somewhere to stay in Paris for a few days.
No problem we thought!
Telephoned Elizabeth who still wasn’t back at the Rogny tourist office and she gave us some numbers to call. Tried them all and no vacancies. So we looked on the net, still no vacancies without having to hand over our life’s savings. Elizabeth eventually took pity on us and made a few calls and came up with the Libertel Canal Saint Martin. A two star hotel close to the Metro and major train stations. Not quite our life’s savings but a good portion of it! However we don’t know when we’ll back this way again so we went for it and booked a three-night stay.
Realised it’s the 25th today so its been two months since we left Australia. We’ve done so much that its feels as though it’s been away much longer. However before we know it the next 6 weeks will fly by. We have Marisa coming, Paris sights to see and places we want to take Marisa to- potteries, ceramics, chateaus, castles, coffee shops, markets………………………………………..
Listened to music, read our books and relaxed with a few glasses of red wine, which the French tell us is good for you and we believe them.
Drove into Bleneau this morning to visit the street markets. (About 10 klms away) Firstly stopping by the tourist office in Rogny to speak to Elizabeth about our Paris visit. Would have to return as she had gone out.
All sorts of foods available here, great cheeses, breads, vegetables and some things that you would rather like to think that people don’t really eat! (But they do!) Heaps of goat cheeses available, but strangely enough we haven’t ever seen any goats out in the fields when we’ve been travelling around. Cows, horses, sheep but not goats. We’ll have to ask Elizabeth where they all are.
Marisa is arriving on Tuesday so we thought we should arrange somewhere to stay in Paris for a few days.
No problem we thought!
Telephoned Elizabeth who still wasn’t back at the Rogny tourist office and she gave us some numbers to call. Tried them all and no vacancies. So we looked on the net, still no vacancies without having to hand over our life’s savings. Elizabeth eventually took pity on us and made a few calls and came up with the Libertel Canal Saint Martin. A two star hotel close to the Metro and major train stations. Not quite our life’s savings but a good portion of it! However we don’t know when we’ll back this way again so we went for it and booked a three-night stay.
Realised it’s the 25th today so its been two months since we left Australia. We’ve done so much that its feels as though it’s been away much longer. However before we know it the next 6 weeks will fly by. We have Marisa coming, Paris sights to see and places we want to take Marisa to- potteries, ceramics, chateaus, castles, coffee shops, markets………………………………………..
Listened to music, read our books and relaxed with a few glasses of red wine, which the French tell us is good for you and we believe them.
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