Bonjour naff weather and no crickets!

Saturday

So I have finally (after what feels like decades) arrived in Villars, about an hour's drive from Avignon.

Chilling at Lille Europe station in between trains.

It's 8pm and about 23 degrees outside so I can't really complain, but tomorrow it is supposed to rain all day and that's our first full day! Hopefully we will get some sun later on in the week so we can visit all the pretty hill top villages and markets and actually go in the pool.

At the moment I just need to have some food and head off to bed! After a delayed train and an hour wait for the hire car, only to not make it to the supermarket before closing time, it's been a pretty stressful day all round. And to top it all off, we can't even hear the crickets that made their presence so known last year!

The Village we stayed in.

As a quick review of the trains I'd say I was let down by the state of the Eurostar trains - no where near as swish as they look on adverts and had minuscule amounts of leg room. On the other hand the TGV French trains were very comfy with lots of leg room and space.

The bonus to the whole train situation is that this is the first time in a few years that I've not been deaf on the first day of the holiday from the plane! Hurrah!

Jusqu'à la prochaine fois :)