Oh gee, got up just before 7.00am this morning to open the shutters to a beautiful sunrise. What could be better than that… Left at about 8.30ish after having breakfast to head to our next week long accommodation. We crossed the border from Italy to France with just a sign at the side of the road, I’m not sure what we expected but somehow were thought there’d be a little more fanfare than that! Oh well, ooh lah lah, we are now in the land of the Frenchie. We noticed there are a lot more speed signs than we ever saw in Italy and thought that they are obviously not as mad on the roads here so we took heed.
It was a long 4 hour journey to our final destination which is a private estate near Bagnols Sur Ceze in what seems to be wine country as there are vineyards all around. For the Victorian readers a bit like the Yarra Valley. As we had entered the destination into Ruby, we have since found out that she seemed to have taken us through the arse end of the world. What we mean by that is it seemed like a long way from anything and she took us through a couple of little villages that you could shoot a cannon down and not hit anyone as they seemed to be deserted. This could have been because of their odd hours of trading and they might have been having a siesta as it was around lunch time (our lunch time that is). Anyway we were starting to wonder what we’d done because although we don’t like to stay in the big cities we thought we might have been too far out.
As it turns out the nearest town is only 10 kilometres away but as Ruby had taken the scenic route we didn’t see it earlier. Also Avignon, a main town is only 45 minutes away with lots of other little towns apparently worth a visit very near by. The place itself is very nice but there was a mix up with the booking and we are in different accommodation (smaller) at the moment to what we will be moving into on Saturday. We like to spread ourselves out.
The weather again today has been sensational, probably high 20’s again but when arriving here a little windy. That is good be because we had a bit of washing to catch up on, can’t get away from the chores. Will have an early night ready for a big day tomorrow.
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