Back in Provence.

Well as fate would have it, reading the title of the last entry "Going back in 2 days", it took 2 full days to get here.

Our flight from Thunder Bay to Toronto was late into Thunder Bay, and thus late to Toronto, and our flight to Munich had already departed.  The end of school must be a very busy travel time to Europe as all flights from Toronto that night were full full full ...Heathrow, Frankfurt.  So we had a nice stay in the DoubleTree Hotel, and tried again the next day.

Saturday the 29th, we get on a flight from Toronto to Paris (CDG), which went on time.  However we did not have a way to get from CDG to Marseille.  We managed to get a reservation on Air France from CDG to Marseille, before we left Toronto but we did not have an actual ticket.

In Charles de Gaulle we retrieve the luggage (always a challenge), and go to the Air Canada office to switch our Munich - Marseille leg to a coupon for Air France CDG - Marseille(MRS).  We are told that yes, we _had_ a reservation for the CDG_MRS leg, but Air France cancelled it as there was no ticket associated with the reservation.

So Air Canada issued coupons for an Air France flight from Orly to MRS, and coupons for the bus.  We catch a bus, to Orly and figure out how to exchange coupons for boarding passes, and get some much-needed lunch and fly to Provence.

In Provence we pick up the car (Passport required but not a drivers license)  and drive to our house in Venelles for the week.  THANK YOU Jim and Cindy for dropping off supplies prior to your departure, or we NEVER would have found this place.

.... off to grocery shop.

The house where we are staying in Venelles:

We are staying the in "Basement" section, in front of the car.  It is a nice enough space, a bit musty, but maybe we'll find a bottle of Le Frebreeze at the Carrefour.