November 22

Just a quick update today. We are in a town called Perpignan France. We are staying here for 5 nights to get organized and to do some much needed laundry!!

The weather on the ride up was mild and sunny from Spain. We had to go around Barcelona to continue on our way north and that was certainly a scary ride. Everyone was doing at least 130 klm and the trucks were passing each other as well as cars. I closed my eyes and tried not to poke at Patrick as we seemed to be dodging trucks for about 25 minutes....i've aged about 10years.....

We then took a smaller highway that had no tolls to get through to the French boarder. This was a much smaller and slower road so Patrick and I could communicate a little. I was having trouble understanding why there were women standing on the road, I mean it's still a highway. Well they were hookers, I know, I know it begs a whole other set of questions where; who ; why ......

Anyway we made it safely to France and we have booked a Gites de France for 7 weeks just outside of Nice. This should get us through the holiday season and hopefully any really cold weather.

We are now enjoying our coffee and pain de chocolate on the riverfront and planning our next 5 days of travel before we get to our next rest stop which happens on the 29th of November.