A Travel Blog
After yesterday’s long post, this really will be short as most of the day was spent traveling. Here’s how it went: 7.30am Walk from hotel in drizzling rain to Dijon Station, about 15 mins Take train from Dijon to Mulhouse, just over an hour Take train from Mulhouse to Strasbourg, just under an hour Take … Read more
This will be a short post: We got the bus to Avignon railway station and caught the TGV to Lyon (apparently crossing paths with Marie and Bill who were in Lyon on their way south to Italy), and then caught another TGV train to Dijon, where we had lunch and checked into our hotel. That … Read more
The adventure continues … Our adventures didn’t finish with our arrival at Cerbère though. Not only was it a roundabout trek up a fairly steep hill to the railway station, but when we got there we discovered that the ticket office didn’t open until 9.45 while our train was leaving at 9.39. To wait for … Read more
The day we left Barcelona ended up comprising an expected and an unexpected adventure! Read on, if you are interested. The expected adventure Many months ago when we first planned this trip, Sue contacted her Internet Bookgroup friend Dvora whom she’s known for many years now and who lives in Figueres, just out of Barcelona. … Read more
Most of this day was taken up with another long train trip, during which Sue managed to catch up on post writing, though not much reading. We left our hotel at 8am and reached our Barcelona hotel around 3pm. After the usual 30 minutes to freshen up, it was off for our last orientation walk … Read more