Up and a typical hotel breakfast and our last French Croissants. We will miss those. Then a race to get packed and the car returned. Tried to get gas but after waiting in line the pump was out of diesel. Maddening! So we had to return it half empty and pay their ridiculous fee. Looking at the gps map to the car return was like looking at a bowl of spaghetti. Somehow with the help of my trusty navigator/ copilot, we made it back to the Sixt car rental. Wandered around the terminal for a while trying to find American check in. Their computer was down but they got us checked in. I am writing this from the plane which has wifi! My first flight was on a tail dragging DC3. With twenty passengers From Simla to Kathmandu in 1955. The pilot just yelled back from the cockpit. But the food was better! Here I am writing a blog from 40,000 feet! Incredible! I’ll finish this someday if we make it home… Well...we made it. Flight back uneventful. Great seats helped. Left Paris at 11:30 am b...
What a fantastic, wonderful, perfect trip! We saw wondrous things and met warm and friendly people. We drove 2,400 km/1500 mi. to many lovely villages and medieval streets and ancient houses. Fantastic beautiful seaside's, streamside's, countryside's. And dozens of magical castles and chateaus. Most of the time we had big smiles on our faces. We will fill out this last blog with some final advice for friends and family who intend to make a similar trip. Again this blog is for DJ and me and our close friends and family who asked us to do this. Some are planning a similar trip soon, so this is all in hopes that there is some grain among the chafe that may help. OK so in our experience here's some things we do that might help you: If your going out of country be sure and get your Global entry. Worth it. We laughed Ha Ha! at the poor shmucks waiting in the cattle pen line for ever as we breezed through the Global entry line like grease ...
10:39 Our first visit today was to the The Fortres de Largoet a Ruined castle was down a very long path through a wild wood. I was grumbling and DJ was delighted with the hundred mile hike. But it was worth it. It was as classic and romantic a ruined castle as you could ask for. Can you spot the ghost in the lower pictures? 3:00 Along the way to coast we stopped at this beautiful "narrow base" windmill. 3:30 Then to the port town of 4:00Beautiful drive along the coast 5;00 to the ancient walled town of Saint-Michel a fortified town built in the 1400s. 7:30 Back to La Roche Barnard for dinner at the port.
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