Today is a travel day. We are going from Avignon in the south to Caen (Normandy) all the way in the north. We had a breakfast, got some lunch for the train, filled the car with the most expensive gas ever, bid farewell to David and are on our way to visit Jean Noel, Anne Marie, Nicholas, and Alice.
As you may remember there was a discrepancy about whether the metro would be running or not, luckily I was wrong and it was running just fine. We were able to connect from one train station to another. Our inbound train was 10 minutes late which gave us 45 minutes to catch our next train. We were off like crazy through the metro, hauling all sorts of luggage, stopping to buy metro tickets, and running up stairs. I'm really glad we had done this before. At the train station the departing trains were not listed by number as they have been before. Luckily the attendant we asked spoke English. We found the train and climbed aboard with 11 minutes to spare, although we were sweating. Off we went for the 2 hour ride to Caen from Paris. We prepared our sandwiches and gazed our into the country. The north is very green and has stone houses with slate tiled roofs.
Jean Noel was at the platform and took us to his home in Ver sur Mer about 20 minutes away. He was thrilled at the sunnyweather and we had aperitifs outside. The kids, Alice and Nicholas were quiet and doing homework. For dinner we had some meat bread with a tomato sauce and veal with root vegetables, finished with the best chocolate mousse I've ever had in my life.
All of us piled into the miniest mini van and headed to the shore for a walk. We could see the remaining parts of WW2 man made piers in the ocean and leftover cement gun bunkers. Alice skipped along the sea wall (she'll skip on any wall if she can). While travelling sucks all of my energy I do enjoy seeing new places, especially like this coast which reminds me of Northern California so much.
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