Monday 21st September - Walking Tour. Montpellier We did a walking tour by ourselves of the shopping streets and Jannie got a couple that she needed. We went into the equivalent of our $2 shops and boy the bargains that we could have come home with if we had the room. The true centre of Montpellier is the oval shaped plaza that is dominated by the Comedie Opera House and is the larget pedestrian area in the whole of Europe and this was designed in the 18t...

Monday 21st September - Tourist Montpellier We eventually made it into the main part of town and it was quite hot. We went to the tourist office and got hold of some brochures that were in English. All of the brochures in the apartment are in French. We decided to do the little train trip around the old part of the city and duly hopped on as the 12 noon train was the last before everything ground to a holt at 1.00pm. It's a crazy thing to happen and not a...

- Montpellier Monday 21st September We got out reasonably early and stopped around the road for a coffee. After I came out from paying there was all of a sudden a huge commotion, sirens blaring, tyres squealing and we looked down past the tram and a van that was out of control came around the tram at speed and crashed into the post holding up the tram lines. It was like a movie, police everywhere on motorbikes and plain and police cars. The driver opened ...

Sunday 20th September - Montpellier Apartment. It was a bit of a mission getting to the apartment and we met Bridgitte who showed us where to park - talk about tight down two floors in the basement - and then she showed us to our apartment which is on the 1st floor. It's not that old and way more modern than the B&B we had just left. It's about a 10 minute walk to the town or there's a tram that we can get. Bubbles and crackers with only butter on ...

Sunday 20th September.- Algues Mortes We walked through the gate in the town wall and here was this amazing little town and dozens of restaurants. We selected the first one that we came to and settled for a poulet sandwich and a beer. It was ok and we weren't in the hot sun but under the trees outside the restaurant. It also sold ice creams and boasted 90 flavours?? Afterwards we went for a walk through the town and looked in all these little shops. The q...