Ibis Hotel Beziers Béziers

... as well about my situation in specific is that I really don't have a care in the world. Time is meaningless, as every minute, every second, is just ephemeral. What matters is what those seconds and minutes amount to. A whole experience. Worrying about tomorrow is useless. When traveling, I had no idea where I would be in 3 days. 2 days was the maximum I would allow myself to look into the future. As a result, time ...

We left Barcelona, Spain early this morning and arrived off the coast of Leucate Plaga around 10 AM. The beach here is rated as the best bare beach in the world and we were here to participate. The weather was cool and overcast so there weren't many people out and no one was naked. We took a tender to shore and chilled for a while before returning to the yacht, disappointed that the weather had dashed our hopes of the perfect ...

So I'm going to nix Portugal from my plans. I started getting a bad feeling when I called them the other day in order to confirm my arrival and they had no idea who I was. Maybe I spoke too fast, but they seemed really confused by my arrival. I sent an email to the guy and he seemed really mad that my dates kept changing and he told me it wasn't worth their time if I came less ...

... to allow rain in Italy to clear. Want to re-visit Lake Garda, see if we can't get the spot right next to the lake we last had some 15 years ago, say. Don't know if it's a good idea to go back to the site of happy memories: can you improve on them in any way, or only spoil their rosy glow?<br>All well with rig, thankfully - you hardly know it's there!

<br><br>So here I am, I finally arrived in France. After a difficult goodbye at the airport, I was on my way to the great unknown. But before I started that, I had to go to the bathroom&#8230;and brush my teeth; one<br>thing at a time here. My flights all went really well and I never had to wait more than one hour during my connecting flights. I had a wonderful delicious airplane meal ...

... hill full of massive bugs and locusts. It was this night I had my first freak out. We were drinking wine whilst engaging in philisophical convosation when I heard a noise which sounded exactly like Hyienas. When I turned to see six massive badgers I ran and screamed like a small girl to my tent. The most embarassing part is that I hadn't registered them as badgers and I was screaming "Hyienas!!"

Tout le monde sait qu'un voyage de 2 mois ne s'improvise pas et nécessite quelque peu d'organisation. Tout le monde? C'est ce que je me disais jusqu'à ce qu'on m'appelle le vendredi 17 juillet alors que j'étais encore en vacances pour me demander si j'étais intéressé par une prestation en Hollande. <br>"Allo Pysnoo. Serais-tu intéressé pour partir en Hollande?<br>Euh??? Ais-je le choix?<br>Bah en fait, pas vraiment!<br ...

... the Grand Canyon - we sat at the top of the waterfall wading around in the cool water.<br><br>We then travelled back to a small town called Lunas where we had dinner in the fab chateau Lunas overlooking the river through the middle of town<br><br>This was a great way to end our stay in Herepian

... stop but did drive by the Montreux Jazz (41st annual) festival venue. We were on our way to Lausanne to find the place where Micki had lived and worked for a summer 24 years ago. After a short while of driving through the city, feeling a little unsure of whether we would find the place, we parked close to the Migros she thought she had worked at. We parked and walked down a couple of streets into a local street market and surprisingly found the pub/ apartment that she had lived at and ...

MONDAY, 3rd July A particularly hot one. The temperature has been rising a few degrees each day since we returned from Spain. Don't mention the fan. We went for a drive to Beziers. By chance the day before we had seen a postcard of the nine locks at, I think, Ecluse de Fonseraines. They were situated just before Beziers and not too difficult to find. An amazing piece of 18th century engineering with nary a moving part initially. Now of course the locks are operated ...