Driving holiday

I have never been a good traveller, until I discovered my "Magic Travel Bands"!! These are wrist bands that have a knobbly bit that sticks into your wrist at special pressure points. I tried them for the first time last October. I was skeptical enough to purchase some tablets at the same time. I didn't need them at all, and I only really appreciated their benefit when I lost them just before the journey back and I was feeling ill despite/because of the travel sickness tablets!

So, J persuaded me that we should drive down to the south of France: 2 hours to Calais, 8 hours to Limogues (overnight stop) and 6 hours to the Vic Bilh region. Our destination was a little village almost directly between Tarbes and Pau. This time I took 3 pairs with me in case I lost or forgot any of them! I did my share of driving, and not once did I feel ill!

The journey down was interesting because we avoided the autoroutes, and still beat the time Tom Tom said we would take along autoroutes! We drove through lots of interesting little villages and saw parts of France you would not normally see if you flew directly to your destination.

Would I do it again? Probably, but I wouldn't rush to be first in the queue. I am normally a very active person and I found two days sitting in a car a very hard thing to do!

The holiday itself was superbly relaxing and pleasant, despite the weather which was unseasonably wet. I made several friends/acquaintances at some of the local bars, and we met up with some ex-pats (friends of friends who are now friends) and had meals with them!

I cooked more this time - the novelty of eating out every night soon wares off! But, as always, we sampled some typically fantastic french cuisine at the local restaurants and some further afield!

I got to speak lots of French to lots of French people and I really, really want to bottle down on learning it properly again!

I'm pretty relaxed from the holiday, and easing slowly into work... Ahhhhh