Our Trip to France

We’re sad to say good-bye to our apartment at Namensestraat 37, Den Haag, but now we’re off to visit friends in France.  It was a long trip.  Our friends Rachel and Kate took us and all our luggage to the train station in Rotterdam.

At the Train Station in Rotterdam

First we took the high-speed train to Paris.   In Paris we had to transfer train stations and then take another train.  But our train from the Netherlands was more than half an hour late, so we missed our train.

High-speed Cheers

We had to wait quite some time at the Montparnasse station and then took another high-speed train to Angers.

Once we got to Angers we rented a car and drove along the Loire to a 15th century farmhouse in a little hamlet called La Vende.  We were so late our friends Janet and Tom had given up on us.  But it was still light when we got there so we could see our bedroom up in the loft.

Waiting at Gare Montparnasse