Almost like a local after a couple of week…

 Sun is out!

A walk through the park…

Crocus for winter weather

I then meet Christie Michael Dimon for lunch…

At

We have a porch table
Christie trying to read the menu

***

In the evening, John and Deadria have arranged a 

Berteaux Family Zoom

There are 7 of us tonite:

Susie (me), Deadria Boyland, Stephanie Robinette

Loretta Berteaux Robinette, JB, Carolyn Hayes

And Jada Berteaux

(Ramonne Hayes didn’t make it today.)

Some of us hadn’t seen each other in 20 or 30 years.

We got acquainted and talked about

 the Berteaux Family Property in Louisiana.

We also shared old family stories and laughed a lot.

Next Zoom will be in December or January.

***

We go out for a walk and do some errands

We end up having something to eat at Beanz

On the way home there are signs of winter coming.

***

We are renting a car for the up coming weekend,

We take the bus to the Airport

We reserve a car from Sixt for the weekend.

 

***

One nite we go to dinner with Christie and David

At Le Rosbifs 

***

It stormed last night, but we go out to do laundry.

Walk through the park

Wet leaves everywhere

It’s raining…

Mission accomplished.
We walk home in the rain

***

It’s Friday and we are ready to go to Chalabre and Esperáza to visit friends.

It’s windy and raining very hard.

John tries to call a taxi, but can’t get through, so 

we need to take the bus to take us to the airport for the car rental.

We miss both buses to the airport so we have to wait another hour

for the next airport bus.

In Starbucks for the hour
wait for the airport bus

We are 45 minutes late for our car pick up, 

we get our car.

After we sit in the car and try to figure out 

how to use the GPS.

We play around with it for about 15 minutes 

and decide to use my phone.

We are off only 1.5 later than we expected.

It’s still raining and we are on the roads 

of Southern France toward our destination

of Chalabre - 3.5 hours away.

I think this is A64
Very wet

Looks a little closer - off into some villages

This looks like we are closer yet.

The stretch of trees into Chalabre!

We arrived and we’re parked.

Gonna rest well tonite.

Black car, our rental.
Window above ajar, our bedroom,

***

Next week…

Chalabre weekend

And more adventures in Pau!