Wednesday

Another day of pottering .

After a leisurely start and a leisurely breakfast I went by tram to the train station  because I thought I would change my train  booking  for my trip to Paris at the end of my 4 weeks here. Trouble was there was a huge queue. I got talking to a lovely lady from Idaho who was with her husband and another couple. After ages waitingmimdecided to give up, I would stick with the original plan.  So , with the aid of my app, I walked back to my apartment by a very circuitous route along streets I had not been before. 

Avid readers may remember my surprise when I saw  that hookahs were not  allowed on the beach at Palavas.  One advantage of wandering back streets is that you never know what you may find . See evidence below of a shop in Montpellier selling various hookahs.  Nex to it was a Lebanese restaurant and next to that was a Hookah lounge. 

There are 3 types of bollards in the streets of Montpellier. Firstly  there are the concrete ones that are fixed that completely block a road from cars passing through, but not usually bicycles or motorcycles. They are easy to manage. Secondly are the ones that you see walking down a street blocking it, you think there cannot be any cars behind you because they cannot get through, then all of a sudden, there is an impatient  car behind you and the bollards are disappearing into the ground,. Thirdly, and these are equally disconcerting, you see cars moving up and down the street, you know to be careful and move out of the way of a passing car, then almost fall over because the ground moves under a foot as a bollard appears out of the ground. 

I enjoyed another nice plat du jour at the local restaurant  for lunch.