Final days in France

Lots has happened over the last few days. Glen and I enjoyed the rest of our trip biking through Uzes, Arles and Saint Remy. We managed to elude the rain and got through our journey without a single flat tire. We saw the most beautiful deep blue skies streaked with clouds, small walled graveyards surrounded by fields of grapes and wheat and sunflowers. We explored some lovely churches and saw some very sweet-faced dogs. We ate at tiny restaurants in tiny towns where the food was amazing and the glasses of rosé cost us one euro.

We followed a rainbow on our way home on the train and it was great to get back to Paris to see the family. The last two days we have spent running around doing all of the things on our “to do” lists.

We stopped back in to buy a few more chocolate treats from A L’Etoile d’Or, and then spent an afternoon at the Louvre trying to get close to the Mona Lisa.

We locked our family’s love on the Pont des Artes bridge and then celebrated with falafels at L’as Du Fallafel in the Marais.

We celebrated my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner out at one of our favourite restaurants in the neighbourhood. We listened to the well loved stories about how they met and toasted to many more years of happiness together.

Today we took Max up to the top of the Eiffel Tower and then picked up some shirts for Glen at the Muji store before picking up supplies for a picnic in the Luxembourg Gardens.

Then we walked and walked and walked. Tomorrow we are up at dawn to finish our packing and head for airport for our early morning flight home.

What an incredibly sweet 33 days…