Friday 14th

Last night I went to bed coughing. This morning I woke up coughing. So I thought , initially, 'woe is me, sick when I am away on my own'. Or similar. Then I read lots of emails and texts from friends who had remembered it was my birthday and I felt a whole lot better. I had half planned to go to Sete , a town 30 min on the train away, but thought no, I will just potter around here and have my special seafood lunch tomorrow, if Ifeel better. 

I tried a different place for my morning petit dejeuner. On my way there i was walking down a narrow street with no one else on it.  Along came 6 very heavily armed young men in some sort of uniform. They were looking left, right, down each side street all the time. I hope they were practising. But back to breakfast.  There is a fairly standard formula of 1 coffee, 1 croissant and 1 glass of orange juice for E6.to E7.50 ,,depending where. Often you get some breadstick and butter and jam as well. This place was nice inside but had a downstairs toilet that anyone larger , either width or height, or with bigger feet,  than me  would have found impossible. It was narrow and circular and scary. I was sort of clinging to the outside wall and watching very carefully where each foot went.

Then I went to an area a bit north of the old centre to look at a modern art place, but it was closed,  despite me being there within the correct time frame. Never mind I walked back along a different road.  I donot like shopping for clothes when I am away and usually avoid it.  I may have mentioned before  that despite me looking carefully , before i came, at the Max and min temperatures in Montpellier at this time of year I got it wrong ( or it is unseasonally cold)  and left my thermal leggings behind. Each time I go out in the morning I am cold. So today, I thought , I am supposedly a grown up person, old enough to manage buying a simple pair of leggings. So I went into uniqlo and bought a pair of leggings. They have a funny system (?I donot know if it in uniqlo shops in australia) but you put what you are buying into this big sort of bin thing. There must be sensors all around the inside of the bin because it just brings up the item on the screen. Needless to say i had not looked at the very clear instructions on the wall in front of me and was wondering where to wave the tag. Someone quickly rescued me.

I was thinking of a few different options to have a nice lunch but decided what i wanted most was a gallette from the  local shop. Coughing in the local shop would be less conspicuous  and easier

 to get outside if I had to. It was delicious.  I did have a piece of cake too.

Since then I have been pottering.  Reading- I am currently  reading a tale.of 2 cities - fancy reading Dickens for pleasure  and brene brown's Altas of the heart. Very interesting. But I don't read Brene's book at cafes . 

Tomorrow I will  go to Sete, probably.