Laundry, breakfast, and a short walk around the neighborhood. After over 2 months going non-stop, we decided we could use a bit of a down day.
There are some Japanese gardens in a quaint section of a park around the corner from the hotel. Really nice place to people watch too, everyone was enjoying the park on their lunch break
After the garden, I needed a Pharmacy and usually there are lots of green cross signs until you really need one! I’m fighting a cold, mostly sniffles 🤧 and a very stuffy head.
The ‘Googler’ seemed to be on the fritz again today, showing a pharmacy in a nearby indoor mall. Didn’t find one, but we’ve seen these stores before and finally wanted to see how “normal?”
It was like a dollar store or the 1€ store, and they had everything – except cough drops!
This was a first for us…drinkables?? Not “normal” for us to see but very interesting & probably yummy too.
Here’s a shout out to my lifelong friend in Michigan. She tells me her grandpa O’Brien married a Frenchwoman. If it was open we’d have checked it out.
Tomorrow we bid au revoir to France, first via train, then a bus to Bilbao Spain. 🇪🇸 Country #9; just passing through on our way to Portugal. 🇵🇹. Our Eurorail train passes are good through the 29th so if you’re wondering why we’ve started taking a bus, it’s because it just worked out better time-wise. We would rather spend 2 hours on a nice big coach bus than 4 1/2 to 5 hours on the train to get to the same place! Bus tickets are cheap too; like less than $50 for two tickets. It’s pretty much a no brainer.
