Bookings have been made for Agen (30th May) and Toulouse (31st May) In each case it is in a F1 Hotel and I have booked 3 duo rooms. I shall take the solitary option. I accept that it will cost me a little more but at least I shall not have to be concerned that I shall wake people up when I make my nightly visits.
Room cost at Agen is 40.90 euros which includes a buffet style "eat all you can" breakfast for both occupants and at Toulouse it is 42.90 euros (well sombody has to pay for Airbus). Thats 20.95 per person average which at current rates is about £17.50.
I also have a booking in Bordeaux on 27/5 for Martin and me as we travel on the same train (and in the same coach) from Paris.
I am assuming we go our separate ways from the Grau d'Agde and will be making a reservation (dont know where yet) for me for the 3rd and 4th June prior to travelling back on 5th. Maybe my English friends might put me up????
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Thanks, Pierre. That means we are all done now, does it? (Bordeaux), St Symphorien, Lagruère (2 B&Bs), Agen, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Lézignan-Corbières (and somewhere Agde/Béziers/Montpellier). Great - bring it on! I'm sure tes amis anglais will put you up!
ReplyDeleteAny art historians amongst us? There is a Rembrandt in the church at Le Mas d'Agenais.
ReplyDeleteAnd now for the anoraks amongst us, here are some data on local authorities! We will pass thru 3 regions: Aquitaine; Midi-Pyrénées; Languedoc-Roussillon. These include 6 departments (like counties). With their numbers, they are: Gironde (33); Lot-et-Garonne (47); Tarn-et-Garonne (82); Haute Garonne (31); Aude (11); Hérault (34). The prefectures (county towns) of these are: Bordeaux; Agen; Montauban; Toulouse; Carcassonne; Montpellier. Some of us will pass thru all but one of these.
ReplyDeleteGo on then Clyde, tell us about the Depatment numbering system. Is it anything like BR Timetable numbering - anticlockwise from L. T. & S
DeleteYou'll wish you'd never asked, Martin! The departments when put into (approximately)alphabetical order are numbered 1 to 95. Most are named after a major river running through them, some after mountain ranges. The numbers are used in all sorts of contexts, eg as the basis of postal codes and, until recently formed an essential part of car registrations, but are also used in regional newspaper articles instead of names.
ReplyDeleteSomething which totally passed me by at the time, until I actually read it somewhere: the UK government had much the same idea in 1974 when they introduced Avon, Tyne and Wear, Humberside, Merseyside, Cleveland (=Teeside), etc - but our counties aren't numbered! It is generally deemed not to have worked, since no feeling of solidarity between people on different sides of the river ever came about! Merseyside was disbanded by Mrs T, along with the GLC and 5 others, and only T&W remains in its original form. A shame? The current system is a mess! But now we hear that the French government wants to do away with the departments too!
I've been re-reading some of our posts and comments and want to propose what might be a fairer system; I wonder how folks feel about this. Out of 6 nights on the actual ride, two imply the sharing of rooms (Carcassonne and Lézignan-Corbières) but the other 4 result in one person not sharing. Let's rotate the single room option amongst 4 of you and I'll take the room with 2 beds, as opposed to the room with 3, at L-C. Then we share the costs equally (now that Peter's figures are in, I'm preparing a spreadsheet on it all!)
ReplyDeletecosts shared equally I am all for that and if Clyde's going to do a spreadsheet I am sure it'll make sense then!
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