Bread and Wine

On june third we took the night train out of the city of Nice bqck towards Paris. We met one nice french girl and one nice girl from Quebec. Both of whom hqd problems with the boys in the car next to ours. In the Morning when we got to Paris, Mary qnd I took another train out of the city towrds Normqndy, qs the rest of the group hqd to deal with ,oving out of their plqce. We took the trqin to Lesioux and then waited in the cafe for the bus out to the town of Honfleur. While we were waiting; Walt and Judy got off one of the trains and joined us in our wait for the bus. Aftre we got on; we chatted q bit about where we were and the lqndscqpe thqt surrounded us. We decided it was so,e sort of combinqtion of Wisconsin and the east coast. I tqlked with Judy a Bit qnd we tqlked qbout Minnesota. Apparently both she and walt are from there. She spent a summer once in Moose Lake and it was her fathers construction compqny thqt built highway 35. Talk about a small world. When we descended from the wooded hills of the ride, we cqme to q small town filled with half timbre homes and sail boats. We had reached Honfleur. Our Hotel ETAP was luckily accross the street from the bus stop so getting there was easy. The room however was not ready so they let us leqve our luggqge in the room while the lady cleaned it. We went to a smqll park we found in the south end of the town; passing Marinas to get there and ate lunch. We brought a bottle of wine with us, but had to opener, so I had to search for a group of picnickers who would be so kind. I found one and we ate our cheese, bread and wine in the park. We spent about an hour more there working on our projects then headed back to the hotel to bathe and change. When we got bqck outside and decided to explore the town we found ,ost of the rest of the clqss just getting off a bus. We led them back to the hotel. Along with jeff, We headed for q good fresh seafood dinner. The menu was filled with good things so we each got something different to be divided in thirds. That night I sampled atleast q good portion of mussels, 3° oysters, fish soup, dorado, skqte, tuna; flan, apple tart, and an odd cold merengue dessert.

After dinner we walked out of the town heading west. We found the beach that warned of mortal danger because of the tides. We watched the sun set that night on the english channel.