A touch of envy at Contiki Tours; no camp stew and Angel Delight for them ...
On the bus!
(Provence)
Dear Mum and Dad
Hope you got my p.c. from Paris. We had a good evening - some of us got a lift from Contiki Tours into Paris again. A very smooth bus - tinted windows, luxury seats and a courier who tells sick jokes! (They even had a marquee affair where they doled out breakfast - not real camping!)
They drove up the Champs Elysees and round the Arc de Triomphe all floodlit - and round and round ... the traffic being Parisian it took some time to work our way to the outside of the race-course and take one of the roads again!
And a brief encounter with a formidable female French patron in a bar ...
They all went to a restaurant for a meal but as we'd eaten the soup/stew? and Angel Delight? concoction at the camp we all piled into a bar down the road. We were "stung" by the awful prices because we sat down rather than prop up the bar. Two of the group tried to "persuade" the waiter that the prices were too much and disappeared behind the bar with him - far from winning, the lady patron appeared - and no one argues with French landladies (they ended up buying the waiter a drink!)
Aussie card games on the bus and putting up tents in the rain ...
Yesterday we were woken at 6.0 (ugh!) and were on the road by 8.30. We had a few 15 min stops on the auto-route, but apart from that, were on the road for 12 hours! Spent most of the day playing rummy than then learnt an Aussie game called "5000" - I was pretty useless (having excelled at Rummy) - perhaps it would help if I stood on my head!
In the dark and rain we pitched at a place called Orange, Provence. Had a quick drink to fortify us - the exuberant barmen had been knocking back the Pernods, so insisted that the first round was free! (About seven people). This morning was still wet and hazy."
card scores recorded on toilet paper!
Aussie card games on the bus and putting up tents in the rain ...
Yesterday we were woken at 6.0 (ugh!) and were on the road by 8.30. We had a few 15 min stops on the auto-route, but apart from that, were on the road for 12 hours! Spent most of the day playing rummy than then learnt an Aussie game called "5000" - I was pretty useless (having excelled at Rummy) - perhaps it would help if I stood on my head!
In the dark and rain we pitched at a place called Orange, Provence. Had a quick drink to fortify us - the exuberant barmen had been knocking back the Pernods, so insisted that the first round was free! (About seven people). This morning was still wet and hazy."
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