Trips, Pics, and Tales

After another lovely lunch on board the ship, Carol and I got ready for our afternoon excursion to Honfleur.  This was one of the optional trips.  We definitely wanted to visit this coastal fishing town!  The weather was definitely not cooperating today though, so we knew this so called "picture perfect" delight may not quite be as picture perfect as its expectations!  But we grabbed the umbrellas and piled onto the bus and off we went!  Those who didn't choose this optional excursion could stay on board, or maybe walk into Caudebec and see the Cathedral.  But it was quite a gray and rainy day. We had a great group though and once we arrived in Honfleur we had a tour of the area and then some free time to wander through the cafés and specialty shops and just soak in all of the charm! During our tour, we learned about the town and some of the original buildings. All of the streets were just like this, narrow, winding and c...

It's hard to believe we'd only just arrived in Paris the day before! We'd already been all over it felt like!  After our food tour in the morning, we went back to our hotel and found the Avalon Waterways reps and introduced ourselves. We still had quite some time before we had to be back to board the bus. As I mentioned earlier, the hotel we stayed at was the meeting point to take the bus to the ship. We didn't have to meet back there until sometime around 3:00 I think? Maybe even later. So, the rep gave us a map, some more sites within walking distance and a recommendation for a place to get crepes for lunch! Off we went! This was really our first time venturing out totally on our own with no where to actually have to be!  We really had no idea where we were going, but we did it!  We had some pretty amazing crepes for lunch - because of course the food tour snacks had worn off by now! And then found our way back to the hotel with plenty of time to spare....