We thought that 3 months ago we would not make it, but here we are in France and it’s 35 degrees!

We left Melbourne early and arrived in Hong Kong. Unfortunately we had an 8 hour stop over in HK  so we decided to pay and go into a lounge and we are soooooo glad we did! After 3 hours Greg “cracked the shits” literally and spent most of the remainder of the time on the toilet!! TMI?????? It was therefore money “well spent”. We thought we were not going to make the next flights , but luckily all was good and we survived the flight into Paris.

We picked up our car , a quite cute little white Citreon C4 which we have named Olaf (for those who know Frozen you will understand ….maybe). It took us quite a while to navigate our way around Paris but we did it with a little help from the GPS (actually a lot of help!

We had a stop at the town of Amboise in the Loire Valley to see the beautiful Chateau.

We continued onto Loches (below), where we stayed the night. Loches is a medieval town which still has it’s ramparts in tact , and a beautiful Cite Royale.

The next morning we headed down to Arcachon to stay 4 nights with our French Family. It was great to see them and we spent 4 days of eating , drinking. laughing , and trying to speak French! Arcachon is near Bordeaux and is on the beach. It was quite hot but we are not complaining!

On our last night we had a lovely farewell dinner at a restaurant on the beach. This morning we left Arcachon and headed to the town of Nevers , our first stop on route to Switzerland.

It’s that time, and you all know what that means!!!!

Until next time

A bientot from France

love Greg and Rhonda.