Fête des Mères
Happy fête des mères to all the mums of France. Any excuse for a breakfast in bed, I say, though croissants au chocolat are perhaps not the ideal choice. However, as we are staying in a hotel and I'm not responsible for washing the sheets I don't much care! We arrived in France last Wednesday breezing through immigration with barely a glance at our passports and no check at customs at all other than walking past a group of gendarmes lounging nonchalently around the doorway. Welcome to France - I love your style. Then it was across Paris by RER and metro to catch our train to Migennes where we left L'Avenir last October. So far, so good. Sun's shining everyone's happy. I had booked a hotel for a few days as the boat had been lifted out of the water over winter (we hoped) and would still be on hard stand. The closest hotel I could find was a coupleof km away (but crucially, not quite ) in the next village of Laroche. Easy cycling distance of the boat so we c...