Last day in Montpellier

I had a win this morning. Quite early , about the time I will leave tomorrow, I walked to the tram stop to see how many people were on the tram. A lady came up to me and in rapid French asked a question. I replied slowly in poor French could she please repeat the question slowly. Ah pardon she says and looks around for some else  to ask. Trouble for her was everyone else was under 20 wearing headphones, so she turned back to me and very slowly asked her question which I replied to.  That particular tram does a loop and unless you look very very closely at the diagram you cannot tell which way round the loop and, as it turned out, she was going to the same station I was. She asked how long I had been here for,  clearly not knowing whether I was right or not. We chatted on, the tram came and I could see her relax once the diagram came up on the screen and she could see I was right. She was running late for her train.

I had breakfast sitting in a cafe near the station. I was inside but with a large glass window in front of me. The tram line went very close to the fairly narrow pavement. It took up all of my window, so when a tram went past, all I could see was tram. Trouble was, each time a tram came past from left to right,  I thought my world was moving from right to left. It is hard to explain, it was a very weird sensation and made me vaguely nauseous,. Sitting in a cafe minding my own business.  

I walked back to my apartment a long way round. Direct route is 1.3km, I walked 5km.

As an aside. I love  Sundays in old European cities - all the church bells ringing at assorted times through the day, and usually more than I church. There are several churches that I can hear., one is the main cathedral which i went to earlier  , the other, I was fairly sure, was Saint Therese. So I thought I would go along and see what it was like and say 'thank you'.  I had not got around to looking it up on Google. 

It was built in the 1930's , has a long skinny tower (which I knew because I can see it from the Peyrou) and inside it is decorated in the Byzantine tradition with quite modern intricate stained glass and mosaics. It is well used with lots of services weekly.

I had a lovely 3 course  lunch at my friendly place 2 doors away.  They knew it was my last lunch there. At one stage Stephan took my glass away and indicated he would top it up on the house. No, no, Thank you. It  was already a generous serve.  My profiteroles came out of the kitchen and there were 3, despite the menu saying there were 2 in a serve. I cannot remember what I said exactly,  something about who cannot count? Stephan had asked the chef to give me 3.  I use my debit card everywhere and donot tip. I had planned to have cash this time so I could leave a significant tip. Just as well. I made it clear I had planned to leave the extra, I wasn't paying for the profiterole.

The rest of the day has been routine.