la Petite Pierre & Paris

Today's adventures varied between great and bloody awful.

We started the day by visiting a great little village

 in the Northern Vosges called La Petite Pierre.

Some of the buildings are classic Alsacian French

In the middle-ages, the village was built on top

 of a mountain and surrounded by stone walls.

Some of the older parts are returning to nature. 

But the most interesting part of the old town is preserved.

This is the picture-perfect main street.

A chateau is built at the very end of the village.

 It is  located in the most impenetrable position with the highest walls

The walls of the chateau must be 20-30 metres high.

That afternoon we drove to Strasbourg where we met Michele again

and parked the car in Michele's work space.

Michele then took us to the station to catch the TGV to Paris

This was a huge disappointment because the day was a very 

hot 35° and the air-conditioning was broken.

It was a stifling 40°+ inside the carriage.

After 2 hrs 20 minutes the train pulled in to Paris station. 

We were exhausted wrecks.

The room was awful. It was stifling hot and

 too noisy to open the window; it was too small and the internet didn't work

 The desk clerk spoke French only and couldn't help us.

Later in the evening we found a room in another hotel and reserved it for our final two nights in Paris. Anyone who knows Jenni would be aware that most of the problems with the room didn't bother her and I now have a fair bit of grovelling to do.