Toulouse to Lyon 25 August 2017

Friday again the weeks go so quickly, left eight weeks ago today.  We had a sleep in today did not have to be out of our hotel until 11.00am so took advantage.  We were organised by 10.30 so walked over to the station just five minutes away had a coffee and something eat, our train was not until 2.50pm so quite a long wait today we did not mind bit of a challenge finding somewhere to sit but managed.  They announce the platform 20 minutes prior to the train you just see this sea of people waiting at the screen and then they head off towards the platform.  This was a big one there would have been well over a thousand of us, everyone booked so everyone has a seat but gracious me not for the faint hearted.  Luggage stowed (a challenge too) find one’s seat, they are lovely trains but it is just the number of people. This was a TGV so high speed with a number of stops, each time someone alights that seat is taken by someone else who has that seat booked for their part of the journey.

We did this six years ago a vastly different story now.  I remember back then we caught our booked train from Lugano to Lucerne and Sam and I were the only people in our first class carriage that will not happen again.

We were very comfortable and saw some lovely scenery, lots of little villages up in the hills.  It is obviously wine country all thru this area as there are a great many vines.  We touched the coast at Sete.  

We arrived in Lyon at 6.50pm, they are always on time, yet another sea of people I said there are 24 million of us in Oz there are 24 million here tonight.  The number of people everywhere this time has just amazed me, and this is everywhere.  We are staying at the Novotel at the station so booked in went downstairs had some dinner and so to bed.  Tomorrow we will do what we can here, have a bit of a plan then leave for Milan on Sunday morning.  All the best Sabine and Sam

PS I hope this is not too boring, but it is my diary otherwise we would just forget, it is so busy I can only just remember yesterday.  Sabine xx