Month: May 2019

Friday May 31, 2019 We decided to not do Arles. The train schedule changed from when we planned the day trip and the times now are not convenient for us. Instead we will do some of our planned activities of Saturday, today. The good thing is that we got to sleep in today,matching up on […]

Thursday May 30, 2019 After a nice nights sleep, Carol makes us breakfast. It is really nice to have my personal breakfast lady traveling with me on this trip. We are going to start our day visiting the Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes). We find our way through the interesting curvy streets of […]

Wednesday May 29, 2019 Today is kind of unusual for us as we have a train in the afternoon. Originally, we were going to spend three nights in Nice, but they are working on the tracks tomorrow and a bus train alternative was not easy so we had changed it to two nights. We did […]

Tuesday May 28, 2019 Today we will visit our fourth country of the trip. It will just be for the day. We leave the guesthouse a little before 0800. We plan on catching either the 0825 or 0840 bus to Monaco. We make good time on our walk and the 0825 bus is waiting at […]

Monday May 27, 2019 In the morning, we have another nice breakfast with Christophe before finishing our packing and heading out for our next train. We are heading to the French Riviera and the town of Nice. Isn’t that nice? It is a two hour and forty minute ride on a regional train. We have […]

Sunday May 26, 2019 As predicted, the weather is not great when we wake up. We have a nice breakfast, courtesy of Christophe. Carol is happy as he makes her two cups of coffee. The breakfast is simple with yogurt, croissant, jam, some fruit, and bread. Orange juice is also served. We chat for a […]

Saturday May 25, 2019 We catch up on some sleep this morning and then enjoy our pastries and coffee. We are not used to leisurely mornings on our travel days so this is unusual and pretty pleasant. Sandrine had insisted on driving us to the train station and shows up on time at 1115. We […]

Friday May 24, 2019 Today we sleep in a bit and then head out around 1000. We start by walking to the Maison Carree a temple built between 2 and 5 AD by the Emporor Augustus for the colony of Nemausus (now Nimes). It was built on a platform dominating the public square and its […]

Thursday May 23, 2019 Our bus choice of times was limited today so we are up early to catch the 0730 bus to Pont du Gard. I ask the driver in French if he can tell us when to get off. It is about a 50 minute bus ride and the morning route includes picking up […]

Wednesday May 22, 2019 After our morning pastry and coffee, we check out and make our way to the Carcassonne train station. We have a two hour ride to Nimes which takes us through some nice French countryside. When we arrive in Nimes our apartment owner picks us up at the train station. She had […]