You know it has been a long day when you are too pooped to write even a simple blog entry before falling asleep, and yesterday was no exception to that rule. We left Paris for Orleans around 2:00, and we really had to push to make it before sunset. Thankfully, the summer solstice was last week, so it doesn't get dark until 10:30. That also happens to be the exact time we discovered the road we were following was blocked off. There are few things in life that are more annoying than backtracking after 8 hours of biking, and among them is finally arriving at your destination to find a locked door and some German tourists who speak no French or English.
After ten minutes of calling the hostel, the ladies finally show us an email they received with the code for the front gate. Of course, we tried it on the wrong gate! Ten more minutes of desperation later, we tried the code in the right gate, got in, and proceeded to sleep like logs. Let's hope today is a bit easier on the mind, body and soul...
There is one good thing to come from this debacle: we will plan to expect the unexpected! Also, biking through the fields and forests of France is magical, so I doubt any of this will annoy us once we are on the road again. Until then!
Kenneth
I'm guessing that Kenneth was asleep before Alex finished writing. Unasked for parental observation: when I worked as a maid guestworker at a youth hostel in Germany in the 70s, our workday began at 7:30 a.m. The standards of cleanliness exhausted me and the other student workers. We were usually asleep by 9:30 or 10 p.m.
ReplyDeleteWishing you continued good weather.