Travel Day

​Yesterday was a blinder!  A whole day of travel. You just have to put your head down and suck it up. 

Day started on Santorini. Lovely island, but very busy.  On the tourist trail. Packed the room and double- triple-checked for anything left behind. Nothing. Just one more check under the bed, though. 

Breakfast at a hip little cafe. We both ordered pancakes, but really could have done with one between us. And coffee. Back to hotel to collect bags, then down to the bus station. €3.20 for two, compared with €25 taxi that we paid two weeks ago. 

Airport was busy and scary, as my ticket didn’t scan properly and we had to wait till all others were aboard before it was sorted out. I lost a tube of sunscreen in security (too big)!

Back in Orly, we had just on an hour to get to Gare de Lyon by 6:30 (we thought) for the train to Beaune. O how SLOWLY the minutes tick down! O how SLOWLY the RER stations tick down!  First the Orly train; then the RER to Châtelet; then the RER to Gare de Lyon. Turns out that we had more than the hour to get there and managed to scramble aboard with a croc monsieur each (way too much food again). 

Journey not complete yet, as we had to catch the local train to Beaune from Dijon. Now normally this is a very exciting trip, but two frazzled Australians who had been on the go from very early in the morning and a time zone away were not in the most elevated of spirits. It was dark when we arrived at 28 Rue de Lorraine and we were ROOTED!  And very tired as well. 

But that’s TRAVELLING!

Toodles!