We spent a couple of days in Paris to see my family - then we left on Tuesday pretty much in the middle of a snow storm. The French suburban train system isn't really the best in those circumstances, in fact it was total chaos. The sight of the day was a little French granny jumping over the ticket barrier, as she probably couldn't be bothered to queue up for 2 hours to get herself a ticket. I say "jumping", but it was more having one leg stuck over the tourniquet and having to be helped over it by the local hoodies. What great solidarity between outlaws!
After a day's travelling we got to Saint Christophe Vallon, where we spent a couple of days with my grand parents. Being her usual self, my mémé Rosette tried to force feed us the whole time ("I know you're a vegetarian, but surely you'll have a little liver pâté?".) When we left on Thursday morning, we were also treated to a packed lunch consisting of no less than 4 croissants, 3 ham/cheese sandwiches, 2 bits of cake, a pack of dark chocolate, 6 clementines, some walnuts and a pack of biscuits. And actually, we did eat quite a lot of it - merci mémé!
(Here's what it looked like!)
On Thursday we spent the night in Lyon, the centre of town is actually a lot nicer than I would have thought. We ended up in an Irish pub of all places. Probably the first in a long series.
We are now at Mark and Béa's in Aubonne. The guys went off skiing this morning and I spent the day with Béa and the kids, who are so adorable but oh dear, it must be so much work to look after them 24/7.
As I have said probably a thousand times already, we are flying from Geneva back to London on Monday morning, and then going to Sydney from there. Can't wait!
C.
2 comments:
Does it feel like it's started yet? Your meme Rosette was probably trying to feed you up for the whole trip. I've given my mum the address of this too. Fiona
Getting there! If we get on the flight tomorrow, that is - fingers crossed, watch this space!
C x
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