What an amazingly long day. Here is Hannah at the Admiral's club in Dallas. We had a three hour layover and she got to take a nap.
Well, after a ten hour flight from Dallas to Paris, we got our car and drove on over to Dinan, in Brittany. It was a 4.5 hour drive but we used our new GPS so it went very smoothly. We got to see Mont St. Michel in the distance (spectacular) and we will get back there in a few days. The drive was lovely but long after such a long flight but we did it!! Here I am with Hannah in Dinan and this is at 6 AM, Saturday morning after having been travelling for over 24 hours. We feel pretty good and I have not really had any sleep.
This is the view of the street from our bedroom window. Everything here is impossibly old. I love it. More pictures to follow...don't forget you can click on any picture to see it full size.....just hit your browser back button to return to the blog.
This is the view from the living room window out to the street. The rental is really lovely. The owner left us a bottle of wine, some bread, cheese and pate and some coloring books and crayons for Hannah and Rachel. That made us feel very welcome. The road up to the rental is soooooo steep and the cobblestones are so old that walking is tricky (until we get used to it).
The town is on the River Rance and the port is gorgeous. The sky is so blue and the weather is gorgeous. We are going to go down to a local pizzaria for an early dinner then we will have to sleep, shower, unpack etc.
This town of Dinan is an old midieval town and we are going to have so much fun exploring.
I will let Joel tell those of you who might be interested about the fun time he had trying to manuever the car up this narrow street in order to drop off our luggage.......
After unpacking, we were going to just go to a little pizza place nearby but were tempted by the local mussels so that's what we had for dinner. It was nice - they were so tiny, I can't eat the bigger ones. We had that and fish soup - very "Bretagne"....We took a long walk around town to familiarize ourselves with the place. Then we all showered and went to bed around 10:00 even though it was still light out, after having been up for 31.5 hours. I didn't sleep at all in that timeframe, H/R slept about 3 hours total and Joel maybe 1 or 2.
"See" you tomorrow.
