Having decided I needed a couple of quiet days, I pretty much put a pin on the map and consulted booking.com with the filter on car parking and free wifi. Then looked for a reasonable sized room where I could happily hang out …
And here I am in suburban Besançon. Quite suitably in a Retirement Home! Seems like it’s fairly new – I guess they’re renting out rooms until they fill it with ‘proper’ residents. (Though apart from my lack of French, I almost fit the demographic.) I arrived yesterday dressed in bike gear (the planned bike ride got washed out by persistent rain) and made a couple of trips with bags and shopping etc through the foyer past residents at Happy Hour. Many bemused looks!
So far living up to expectations: little kitchen, automatic night light!, sunny balcony when the sun comes out, indoor pool, listening to the ABC on internet radio. Not sure that lounging in my bathrobe is quite my scene though. (There is a photo but I think my camera must think it’s tomorrow and the iPad doesn’t like that. Maybe add it tomorrow.) yeah well the camera doesn’t want to give it up. I’m persistent but very hard to take one-handed photos with the iPad in its case! And just in case you’re wondering, I did mean to cut off my head!
Now what was I going to do apart from sleeping in and happily frittering the day away?
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