We arrived home safe and sound Saturday, October 7th after a long day of travel!
“HOME SWEET HOME”
During our 32-day adventure we travelled in excess of 19,000 kilometres (or 12,000 plus miles) by planes, trains, automobiles, buses, cruise ship and our own two feet.
We flew a total of 13,500+ kilometres from Toronto to Paris, Paris to Barcelona and returning from Toulouse to Paris, Paris to Toronto via Air France.
Our cruise ship travels on the MS Riviera throughout the Mediterranean Sea covered (2165 nautical miles) 4009 kilometres.
Our lovely rental car “the Orange Captur” transported us over 1285 kilometres of highways, city streets, narrow rural roads throughout France and Spain.
And luckily the built in “Molly the GPS” didn’t take us through any vineyard dirt tracks like it did in 2005.
There was no question that we would not find our car wherever we parked it! The bright orange colour made it easy to find!
Our TGV train ride from Barcelona, Spain to Perpignan, France was a flying ride of only 159-kilometres ... oh how I forgot how we used to travel only by train while in Europe, a relaxing and enjoyable method of travel.
I’m not sure how much distance we travelled by bus, taxi and on foot but it seemed like plenty.
We visited/ explored many communes, cities, towns and villages in the countries of France, Italy, Malta, Monaco and Spain.
Using our five senses we fully experienced the life and culture of the many places and people we met during our travels.
We spent two days in Barcelona one on each end of the 10-day cruise, rented the same apartment “Ciel Bleu” in Céret, France for a couple of weeks and then spent our last week in the Lot Valley visiting “lots”of friends.
We are just getting ourselves sorted, back into some regular routine and catching up on some lost sleep.
Still working on laundry and putting things away, did get the grocery shopping done on Sunday in between an emergency call to the plumber (no hot water, yikes) ... bad news is not just a repair, water heater needs to be replaced and we are still dealing with this today (Tuesday) ...it was a holiday weekend here in Canada celebrating Thanksgiving!
I’m very thankful for our friends and family for hot showers and a delicious “Turkey Supper”!
I still have many photographs to cull and edit plus many stories, posts to write and share on the blog.
I’m writing and posting for Monsiuer Honey and myself so when we are old and grey, okay maybe I should say “older and more grey” sitting in our rocking chairs we will be able to look at the photos, read the stories & reminisce about our wonderful travels!
A big part of our travels is meeting up with old friends and making new friends ... so a big thank you for being part of our adventure to you all!
A big shout out to the new friends made in Barcelona from Monsiuer Honey’s birthplace aka Geordie land, South Shields, Great Britain ... Dawn & Ian, Pippa & Darren, and our new friends made on the cruise Kathy and Steve from B.C. and so many others.
Thank you so much to our New Zealand/ Céret friends, Karen and John!
Thanks again to our “old” friends in the Lot ... Laury, Clare, C &B (original French Connection)!
Everyone of you were a special part of our travels!
