20090519 – Montpellier

Wednesday yet another blue sky day and very warm so we start with breakfast outside. Leisurely start to the day and then we set off to Montpellier, which is just 13 miles away. Park up at a park and ride and catch the tram into the city centre, all very elegant and efficient for just 2EUR each. The trams are all very brightly painted and decorated ,the one we travelled on was bright yellow with red and orange flowers.

Montpellier is one of the nicest cities we’ve been to. Especially if you don’t have to drive around it. It’s a very young thriving city and we visit a place in the centre named the Egg its full of fancy French style cafe’s, we sit having a coffee it’s opposite the Comedy Opera. Of course it’s MacDonalds, an excellent cup of coffee all for E1.30 and a front row seat for people watching. We have lunch in the park outside the Corum and watched a drug bust. Two plain clothes coppers drive up in a brand new Ford and swoop on three black kids and proceed to search them and sniff everything they find. Talk about undercover, they’re in shorts, trainers and Oakley’s, the only clue to them being coppers is the brand new car and the handguns hanging in their handbags.

Then we have the fright of our lives as this obese walrus – no she wasn’t topless on the street – walks up the street in a white gown and metal foil sticking all out of her hair. Just like a Dr Who monster. Turns out she’s having her hair done and has nipped out for a fag.

When we get back to our caravan it’s still sweltering 36c inside and 24c outside. Never mind bread, cheese and wine Al Fresco.