Monday Morning...

It’s 8:00 AM, Monday the 14th of June. I’ve got a hot cup of tea beside me as I type this message, and looking out of the window I see both blue sky and clouds – I guess you could say that it’s too close to call at this point. Yesterday would have been a great cycling day, but it was the day to return to Châteubriant and break the bike down and put it in its case. (That would figure…)

Today we switch into full-blown tourist mode, driving with our host to Paris and then finding cheap accommodations (we’ve got some reserved in advance). I’m expecting the “worst” as these apparently are pretty much a room with a bed, and a shared bathroom down the hall.

Then it’s just a matter of catching some kind of transport into Paris and wandering around for the next couple of days doing whatever it is that tourists do. At this point they no longer ride tandems… so I’m a bit confused. No doubt we’ll see other tourists in Paris and we can follow their example.

Blog updates? Who knows? I’m highly doubtful that our motel is upscale enough to have Wi-Fi (but then again, I’ve been wrong before). And there are actually some Starbucks scattered through downtown Paris, so maybe I’ll find one there that has Wi-Fi and will get a post and some photos out.

So if you don’t see anything here for a couple of days, don’t panic. Just keep checking back; somewhere we’ll find an outlet to throw out our last few “French hellos”!