I want to record the good homey feeling I had tonight in Girona. The general blog about Girona will have to wait. We have been having tapas, and vermuts, and sangrias at more expensive places in Old Town, meaning at tourist places. You go in, pick the tapas, order the drinks, eat, pay, and say Continue reading

I’m very tired and achy tonight. I fell asleep on the 10-min train ride home. It has been a long day, from getting up at 6:30am to coming home at 7:00pm. The day started with walking/running to the train station because no driver was available on Bolt or Uber and we got on the train Continue reading

We knew a storm was coming. Everywhere in the Occitanie region showed 2-3 inches of rain, but we had no choice but driving back to Toulouse to return the car and hop on the next train from Toulouse to Narbonne. It was dark when we left Sarlat. I don’t even remember seeing the sun the Continue reading

One sure thing I love most about France is the fresh foods. It seems that every sizable town here has a Les Halles: Lyon, Montpellier, Toulouse, Narbonne. Besides the covered markets that are open maybe 6 days a week, there’s also open air markets at least once a week. Note that most markets here are Continue reading

Or Sarlat-La-Canéda, a medieval town in the Dordogne, capital of Périgord Noir. We rented the car in Toulouse and drove to Sarlat through the departmental route to avoid the toll. The rental guy at Sixt tried to sell us the upgraded Opel for 35€ more a day. We turned him down, but got the same Continue reading