Spent my last 2 days in Montpellier. It is a wonderful city. Spent my time walking, exploring and, of course, shopping. Montpellier is a perfect blend of a metropolitan University town with great history and small town appeal. People there are friendly and helpful. They were all very patient with my bad french especially when I explained that I was learning french and preferred that they speak french and that I try to as well. Most actually helped me out with corrections to my grammar and additions to my vocabulary.
The flight home was mostly uneventful except for the flight from Montpellier to Paris. I was staring out the window admiring the magnificent sunrise over a flat bed of light cloud cover. In the distance was what appeared to be a bank of heavy dark thunderheads at the centre of the runrise. As we began to come due west of the dark mass it became obvious that what I was looking at was the peaks of the Alps coming up through the clouds. The effect was that of a huge island in the sea of clouds. My camera was in the overhead bin and there was an overlarge sleeping man between me and the bin door. I could have screamed. So I frantically took notes and sketched in my journal for later reference. This may become a painting.
I got back to Ottawa 2 hours late thanks to Air Canada's inability to stick to a schedule. Missed my family's Thanksgiving meal. Bart and Sam picked me up at the Airport. Thank you guys.
Was in Ottawa visiting with family and friends for about a week. Did some work on the photo gallery but did not have enough time to finish it and get it posted. I am trying a nwe gallery generator that Tom found and is using. It is nicer and easier than the previous one.
Posted by gailene at October 29, 2003 11:01 AM