After posing with ‘silly legs’ in front of every fountain we found, we returned home safe and sound last Saturday. The weather in France has been unseasonably cold, so we skipped the visit to Toulouse—it’s close enough, we can visit another time. It was SO good to be home again.
Theo started it…!
The dogs were very happy to see their Papa.
All in all, we traveled 5175 kilometers (3216 miles) and enjoyed every minute of it. Now it made sense that we bought the BMW for our ‘touring’ car, even though it’s a boat around town! I didn’t nearly fill it with treasures, but could have. The valets at the hotels were amazed at the amount of crap we were traveling with, even though I thought we were quite restrained! 😝 After explaining that we were on a 6-week automotive adventure, they nodded their heads with understanding.
Our route.
Just a little postscript. I know only a couple of you will appreciate this photo (are you out there Hillary and Dulce?), but before leaving on this adventure, I bought an extra Nespresso machine to take with us (which will now go into the guest house), because to NOT have coffee in bed for six weeks simply isn’t living. And so I lugged my “little kitchen” bag (not so little or light!) with my coffee machine, pods, cups, spoons, sugar, CoffeeMate (one of our guilty pleasures), knives, cutting board, rag, ziplock bags, and paper towels. All the comforts of home…
Ah, nothing like java in bed.
I have to put in a word for our over-the-top fantabulous dog/house sitters, Diana and Ron. They were superstars and spoiled the dogs in the fashion that they are accustomed (uh-hum). They were in touch with us throughout the trip and now I think the dogs have visited more of the sites around here than we have! 🐶 When we returned, we found that Ron had cleaned up a mountain of sticks from the trees, and we were treated to Diana’s fabulous leg of lamb for dinner. We enjoyed a couple of days swapping great stories—surely friends for life.
Annie, Diana, Theo, Ron and Alfie
These pig floats in a pintxos bar describe how we feel after eating on the road for 6 weeks!!!
We are both at our lifetime heaviest weight, so healthy eating and exercise must now prevail. We did enjoy some fabulous food along the way, thanks to the European Michelin Guide. And some not so good, when our feet were too tired to find our way, or when we got so pissed at Google Maps spinning all over the place, that we gave up and just picked a restaurant! But we had fairly good luck and people were incredibly nice at every stop. Now it’s time to nest and get back to unfinished projects!!!