We arrived at 6.00am and glided through Charles De Gaulle airport straight into a taxi... too easy!!! We shot out of the airport into un bouchon monstre - a traffic jam for 14 km. As we crawled past trucks, cars and vans we noticed a couple of things. Most cars had their windows open and arms were dangling out... often holding a cigarette! so no air con. Or if they had, typically the French don't use it. There were hardly any electric cars and the temperature was gradually getting hotter!
By the time we got to our hotel (with no air con!) the temperature had risen to 35 degrees . We headed for the nearest bar for coffee only to find that it didn't have air con either. The plan had been to check out the train trip for the next day and then to walk the viaduct greenway before visiting some of the artisan workshops around the Gare de Lyon.
We finally found a bar with shade and had lunch Formule of course! With that we headed back not to our hotel but to the Novatel who did have air con and had rashly set it to 30 degrees! A couple of hours reading before heading back to the hotel to sleep under a limp fan before heading out for dinner... not quite the experience we expected but... Hey it was so good to be back in France with all its quirkiness!
Trausse-Minervois tomorrow!
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