My second visitor in Montpellier - 14 May 2008

 

My very good friend, Bub, and I went to school together (all those decades ago!) but had lost touch until about five years ago!  We've made up for lost time since then and she came to spend the week of 14-22 May with me, travelling by plane from Gatwick.  It’s easy to catch the Navette from the airport (I think they organize the airport bus only to catch a plane or meet one because they don’t run very often) to Place de l’Europe, which is near where the trams stop.  From here it’s an easy tram ride to the apartment.

Bub loved the Saturday morning market in the Antigone and stopped at countless stalls to taste their wares.  I managed to catch her unawares as she tried to eat a crêpe with ice cream inside! 

 

 

And snap her when she seriously studied the inscription on one of the many statues! 

 

 

And asked her to pose in front of one of the fountains in the Polygon to hide the fact that one of the statues had lost his right arm! 

 

 

And she snapped me trying to help poor Hercules to carry his horse in the Avenue du Pirée.  We're not sure it was Hercules., in fact, but we couldn't think who else would be strong enough to be carrying his horse!

 

Wendy with horse

 

And finally a passer by caught us saying fond farewells beside Bub’s hire car as she left for the airport.  Sadly her departure coincided with a nationwide strike which included the buses so I couldn’t go to the airport with her in the car because I couldn’t get back into the city! 

 

 

Bub loved Montpellier too and we both hope that she'll be able to come again.