The day began as any other. We rolled over and fell out of bed around 9:00am. Another 10 hours sleep - we will receive a huge shock back in Sydney. Breakfast of boiled eggs, toasted baguettes and croissant tasted as good as always, this time prepared by the kiddies. We had a pretty slow morning. Around 11am, Miles, Kyra and Rory went to have a look at the market in St Quentin La Poterie, about 15km away. Claire and Richard stayed behind - Richard to catch u...

We had a sleep in until about 9am, when Rory awoke. It was another beautiful, not-a-cloud-in-the-sky day. We had another boiled egg each as well as the croissant with the same plum and nectarine jam (we will be getting different jam for tomorrow after getting through this after only two days). However, today we would do something. We went out to Collias and canoed eight kilometres down the River Gardon and under the Pont du Gard. It was a fair bit better than...

We woke to a clear, sunny day. Croissants, oeufs and baguettes (still warm) were sitting outside our door. We enjoyed a slow French breakfast (complete with the hostess's home-made fig and apricot jam). Most Stantons then picked up a book and lazed around reading. Kyra visited to local shop for lunch - cheeses, baguettes, pate and amazing fresh fruit. After lunch we picked up our books, with a long lazy afternoon nap the order of the day. For dinner, the ...

Up a little early (7:15am) but the family runs like a well-oiled machine now on travel days. Everyone was showered, packed, breakfasted and downstairs with time to spare. A quick taxi ride to Gare de Lyon and off on the TGV to Nimes. What a great system Europe has with rail travel - how Aust needs to learn. The Stantons were also lucky to travel in First Class to Nimes (woo hoo!). We left Paris where it was a 16 degree drizzly day. We arrived into Nimes to ...