French Holidays (part 2)

Part 2 of holidays .....

A whole lot of waiting ensued. Luckily the Tour de France has a million trucks before the race, and a few of those were throwing out things. The kids and I went on the road to catch hats, and free shopping bags, and armbands, and sweets, and even a t-shirt of two. Yay! Like being a kid again, asking people in passing trucks to throw things at us, and scrabbling so the other French people and kids didn’t get it at all. Connor was the best catcher, an he caught 9 items, and gave 3 away. Out of the nine , he gave one to a French child (sweets) and two to his best friend who had caught far less. It’s one of the traits that makes Connor such a nice child, and also the reason he’s likely to get less in life by not looking out for himself first. He takes ‘sharing is caring’ to the extreme.



After the Tour de France has flashed by in about 10 seconds, the first 4 riders took about 3 seconds, and we waited 10 minutes for the ‘peleton’ to come through, which took about 7 seconds to flash by. A bit like EuroDisney, hours of waiting for 30 seconds of fun.

Then we walked into Les Baux, had a look around, and got some drinks. The kids, Tanya and I went shopping, and the men went to fetch the car 2 kms away. We met them when they got back and drove home.

Part 3 to follow.....