We are underway. Dinner at Fouquet’s this evening. There should be 87 of us if all show up. The trip was sold out so there must be a fare number of solo travelers. The Intercontinental Le Grand is really nice. The hotel is very old so the ‘Classic’ rooms are not large, but they are very well done. We are having a little bit of fall weather with a few showers in the morning. The hotel has an unusually late check-in time of five PM, but we managed to get a room around three. They comped us a couple drinks while we waited in the ‘lounge’. The hotel is triangular in shape, so navigating around in the upper floors can be a challenge. The room numbering system is from a bygone era. We have room 1105, which of course is on the first floor, which is one floor above floor zero, and two floors above ‘minus one’. We spend two more nights here, then take the TGV to Lyon where we board the boat. We are dining mostly at neighborhood restaurants, as the prices at the hotel will bring tears to your eyes. It makes the price of laundry to be of little consequence. We have noticed that the French women in the hotel who are mostly dressed to the nines, carry not one purse but two.
