12 juin, leaving Annecy en route to Paris
Amazing day yesterday on Mont Blanc: I will attempt to post photos as soon as possible.Tuesday:
This will not be a very long blog, as I am slowly melting from the heat. We are in Paris when it sizzles!!! The temp is likely to get to 36 today - very few places have air conditioning including our mini appartment. Last night was airless and noone slept very well.
Enough moaning: our trip from Annecy, mostly on the autoroute went very smoothly until we hit the outskirts of Paris, then poof (favourite expression at the moment) we halted!! When we ddecided to stop off in Beaune, little did we know we would meet up with Irene and Peter Calder for lunch! A few SMS and phone calls and the wonders of modern communication (thank you Anthony for the phone numbers) and we made contact just as they were starting on their first course in a lovely little Cave (wine shop/restaurant) - amazing. Three hours later, after a delicious lunch and catchup, we resumed our journey, finally reaching our appartment behind the Georges Pompidou Centre at 1910 where we were met by Jerome, one of the owners. Very nice place..... for 2! Although it has 2 King size beds there is only a sliding screen in between. We should have been suspicious as it was very cheap for the centre of Paris. No aircon means it is very hot. Rhondda and Arthur have decided to find somewhere else for 5 nights as Rhondda did not sleep at all. Bonuses - this internet is opposite and very cheap; the place is very central; a change to cooler temps is expected tomorrow - but not too cool, fine until the weekend; we are in Paris; it is still light at 10:30 at night; there are scores of good places to eat close by - Jerome recommended us several.
My mobile number in France is 0688978368 - leave off the 0 if calling from outside France. I still have to post photos - again I forgot to bring my CDs to this internet!
to be cont...
posted by lizandarthur @ 4:55 pm
3 Comments:
Hi Liz & Arthur,
It was great to see you guys in Beaune. Sounds even more intimate in your digs in Paris than the Canal Barges! It is still beautiful & hot in Beaune but not quite as hot in Paris. For the first time I have internet access in my room & the hotel is stunning we moved to our next venue which is inside the walled city of Beaune! I posted the picture I had of our lunch on our blog. The address is; http://finevines.blogspot.com/ We are off to do a little tour of North of Beaune for the afternoon.
Cheers,
Irene & Peter
Salut! Je sais comment vous vous sentez - ce n'est pas tres confortable sans climitisation a Paris. Je depart pour Angleterre dans une semaine et je suis tres passionee d'etre la-bas! En ce moment, je lis un roman au sujet d'un librarie Australien a Paris qui s'appelle The Australian Bookshop. C'est sur Rive Gauche Quartier Latin. A toute a l'heure
Fiona
Fiona
We found out at the Abbey Book shop that the Australian Book shop had just closed - they had a closing party only the week before: Apparently she was puttin more money into it than she was taking out and although this looked suspicious, it was probably just that she was not a good business person!
Paris etait tres, tres formidable. Nous devons y retourner.
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