Blogs from Foussargues, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Europe

They came (well most of them), they saw, they conquered and now they're left and Kev, myself & Keith are at Hong Kong airport waiting for our plane to Sydney. The presence of family members only really seemed to last a short time nevertheless it was brilliant while it lasted. Early Saturday morning Katherine, Thomas, Sienna & Evie piled into their hire car for the drive to Nice to catch the plane back to Copenhagen; I've since heard from them to say they are safely back home. Then later in the afternoon - after yet another visit to the fabulous markets at Uzès - Kev & I took Ross to Nîmes to catch his TGV back to Paris in order to catch his early Sunday morning plane back to Tokyo. (Pascal, one of the joint owners ... read more

Yours truly, Kev & Ross enjoyed a walk around Avignon before heading to the TGV station to pick up our hire car and meet Keith off the train he'd caught from CDG having flown in from Australia that morning. Then, with Kev driving, we headed off to Uzès for some grocery shopping, and from there to Foussargues where the house I'd rented for the week to celebrate my 70th birthday was situated. Not long after settling ourselves in, Nicola and Margot arrived having caught a later TGV to Avignon and then a taxi. By around 11.30pm or thereabouts Katherine, Thomas, Sienna & Evie arrived having flown from Copenhagen to Marseille where they picked up a hire car for the drive to join us. So with the partial family together on Wednesday all of us, except Keith ... read more