Tuesday 17th June A day trip to Vichy

It was raining quite hard this morning and so rather than on site we headed off for a trip to Vichy. By the time we arrived the rain had stopped and we were there in time for lunch in a place we have been several times before.

After lunch we decided to head for the Station to find out where it is and also perhaps look around as we will be going there again later this month when we leave by train to Paris and then on by plane to join an important friends event in Wey Road.

The station was in turmoil as not only were they digging up the tracks and refurbishing the station there was a sign saying no trains to Paris by exception????

We went inside the station to try and find out what was happening but the ticket area was very busy and also we did not have our train confirmation email which we could use for checking the booking. So we will return later this week fully armed with our confirmation slip and try to find out whu SNCF sold us tickets on line for perhaps non existent trains. This will be fun.

There is a brand new Carrefour Supermarket in Vichy which we visited for some shopping, this a very shop with a great choice of food which all looked very fresh.

We headed home after getting a little bit lost around Vichy, it’s a bigger place than we thought, and arrived back at the site nas it started to rain again,

We had some of the Lasagne left over from last night and decided to have that for dinner and then spent the rest of the evening reading to the sound of the passing river.

I am writing this on Wednesday morning 18^th and the sun is out, there is pretty much blue sky everywhere and its getting warm. We plan to put up the Awning today so tomorrow read the sordid and frustrating details of our first attempt.

PS We did not take any photos of Vichy as we have quite a few during past visits. You can visit the Phafare Blog for our previous photos of this area