We were all a bit slow off the mark today, perhaps it is a little travel fatigue finally catching up.
Perhaps we were just relaxed waking to a day when we had nowhere to go, no one to see, nothing to do.
When we are at home, we don’t have a particular desire to race out and visit and revisit all of our local attractions and so it is when travelling without any particular schedule, unless there is something particularly compelling, we are content to just “be there”.
Mostly simply being in a place is enough, interactions with folk going about their day to day business offer far more opportunities to experience our present environment, than standing for hours in queues in the company of fellow visitors to any given location. It’s not a case of snobbery, we have all the time in the world and they do not. Tomorrow we will be going to some effort to join them on a quest of our own, but today, let’s call it a “rest day”.
A little bit of maintenance and repair on La Belle Vie, some replenishment of basic necessities, like baguette and smoked duck, happily filled in our morning. However while Chris and Annie obviously caught up on their own maintenance, romped off into the afternoon heat to take part in a guided tour of one district or another, a gentle afternoon stroll through our neighbourhood in the afternoon heat would provide us with all the environmental stimulation we could handle.
As is so often the case, our gentle window shopping evolved into something else as the air conditioned interior of a fabulous furniture store beckoned.
Our host within, a super-attentive salesman who, while plying us with cool drinks, proved to be just as effective as a design knowledge base as he was salesman, did not seem at all disappointed when we left with only a tiny selection of stock on his list of things to deliver to Australia.
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