After a late and leisurely breakfast, the birthday party wandered into Nîmes for shopping and sightseeing. We had lunch high up overlooking the Maison Carré in the Carré D'Art Museum. The lunch was fine but not up to the feasts of the last few days, but the weather was good enough to have sat outside, which was a bonus. We then strolled down to the Coliseum and through the old part of town, looking at the shops, or more to the point trying to find a French team football shirt for an expectant little boy, back in England.
On the motorway back to Montpellier, for the flight home, we hit a huge traffic jam. Both the 2 inside lanes were filled with bumper to bumper trucks. It looked like a huge lorry park and made you realise how important that route is for Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, British, Dutch and German commerce. Whilst trying to find the radio, so that we could listen to road reports, we found some radio controls and speakers, but no on/off switch and no actual radio. We eventually found a remote control which when pointed at the dashboard, turned it on. Weird but fun! Anyway, we were only delayed 35 minutes and got to the airport in good time. After sad farewells we returned to pick up 2 very relieved pooches and to an empty house. A good fun 3 days.
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