Smiling, happy, friendly faces from home and yummy French meal by the port

As great as it has been, today was the day to make a move from Paris down to La Rochelle (west of France) to see our good friends Kris and Paul and their bub Zoe who are also visiting France at this time. It was so nice to see them again; you don’t realize how much you miss home until you see a familiar face that is smiling and happy to see you!

The train ride down to La Rochelle was quiet and uneventful, though we were well impressed with our first class seating (thank you Eurail) we read, wrote and slept away the 3 hours until we arrived in La Rochelle and met up with the guys, it was lovely to see them once more.

Chris and Paul then decided to drive the car load of bags and luggage back to the hotel while Kris, Zoe and I would walk around the port area in search of a nice café/place to have dinner. It was said that we would meet up again in 20 minutes, however an hour and a half later we were still waiting, and we finally did see the boys again it transpired that the hotel reception was not open, but said that it would open in half an hour, so they had waited, and waited, and waited, eventually giving in and coming to see us instead. During all this Kris and I had had a chance to walk about the wharf area and check it out a bit; it is very pretty I must say.

The boys eventually returned to us and we sat down to a 3 course meal that only cost 14 Euro, it has to be said that this is a bloody good deal here in France! It was so nice to be with friends, to chat and laugh and experience real French food (Paul is French so he was able to lead us in the right direction food wise) it was a lovely chilled out night of catch ups and stories before heading back to the hotel for a quick game of “toss the pig” and bed ready for our big day tomorrow.

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Chris and Emily on June 15, 2009 from La Rochelle, France

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

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