Time passes quicker than you want it to and so it was soon parting of the ways for my sister, b-i-l and I to say goodbye. Our time, winding our way from Youlgreave to Macclesfield, was quicker than expected and I was able to catch an earlier train to London. The train was crowded but after a while I found a seat.
Arrival in London was a shock as it was so hot (30C) and muggy. After pretending that I knew where I was going I resorted to the phone to guide me! I eventually found the hotel and was directed to my shoe box sized room. If it hadn’t been so close to the station for the Eurostar train I wouldn’t have chosen it!
Once I’d dropped my bag I was off to the big smoke to have a visit to Marks and Sparks to try to buy another pair of shorts. On entering the store I was shocked- were there closing down I wondered – no it’s sale time I was told. So that’s why it looked like a jumble sale!! I did find ONE pair of shorts in my size. Grabbing some undies on sale I hastily retreated from the store seriously disappointed – I know pathetic.
I went back to my shoe box, which by now was a majorly hot shoe box, and relaxed my weary body – perhaps the two hours of cycling the day before was catching up! It was pure joy to jump (?) under a cold shower.
At 7pm I met up with Kitty & Roger and we headed to the local pub. We’d heard that France had won their match so the next game was on the pub TV, luckily we found seats in the beer garden! The pub grub was fine and by 9pm (still light) we were ready for another round in the shoe box! A very poor night’s sleep ensued what with the heat and noise!
05:30 saw us heading to the station where we bought a few supplies for the train journey (6hrs). All went smoothly and we are in spacious seats (Kitty had booked the equivalent of premium economy). We were all rather surprised to be given breakfast. Kitty mentioned that she should have read the small print on the ticket! It was lovely rushing through the English countryside eating breakfast .
Quick dash through the tunnel and it was time to move our watches on an hour. We are now belting through the French countryside! It was a bit disconcerting going to the loo as Mona Lisa is staring down at you!
Got another surprise at lunchtime.
The journey sped by and we arrived in Avignon at about 3pm and then had to queue for an hour to pick up hire car-it was chaos and you had to laugh at the way people react to these situations.
Finally we headed off to our final destination. We only got lost a couple of times!! It’s a really lovely spot. Dinner was a bbq with 17 people sitting down to dinner.
It was good to have a comfortable bed but unfortunately I had a intruder which turned out to be a large toad! I soon shoved him out of the door! Finally sleep came to me and the sun was shining when I woke at 7. A quick swim and then breakfast of croissant
My intruder!!
Arrival in London was a shock as it was so hot (30C) and muggy. After pretending that I knew where I was going I resorted to the phone to guide me! I eventually found the hotel and was directed to my shoe box sized room. If it hadn’t been so close to the station for the Eurostar train I wouldn’t have chosen it!
Once I’d dropped my bag I was off to the big smoke to have a visit to Marks and Sparks to try to buy another pair of shorts. On entering the store I was shocked- were there closing down I wondered – no it’s sale time I was told. So that’s why it looked like a jumble sale!! I did find ONE pair of shorts in my size. Grabbing some undies on sale I hastily retreated from the store seriously disappointed – I know pathetic.
I went back to my shoe box, which by now was a majorly hot shoe box, and relaxed my weary body – perhaps the two hours of cycling the day before was catching up! It was pure joy to jump (?) under a cold shower.
At 7pm I met up with Kitty & Roger and we headed to the local pub. We’d heard that France had won their match so the next game was on the pub TV, luckily we found seats in the beer garden! The pub grub was fine and by 9pm (still light) we were ready for another round in the shoe box! A very poor night’s sleep ensued what with the heat and noise!
05:30 saw us heading to the station where we bought a few supplies for the train journey (6hrs). All went smoothly and we are in spacious seats (Kitty had booked the equivalent of premium economy). We were all rather surprised to be given breakfast. Kitty mentioned that she should have read the small print on the ticket! It was lovely rushing through the English countryside eating breakfast .
Got another surprise at lunchtime.
The journey sped by and we arrived in Avignon at about 3pm and then had to queue for an hour to pick up hire car-it was chaos and you had to laugh at the way people react to these situations.
Finally we headed off to our final destination. We only got lost a couple of times!! It’s a really lovely spot. Dinner was a bbq with 17 people sitting down to dinner.
It was good to have a comfortable bed but unfortunately I had a intruder which turned out to be a large toad! I soon shoved him out of the door! Finally sleep came to me and the sun was shining when I woke at 7. A quick swim and then breakfast of croissant
My intruder!!
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