I’m sitting in a Starbucks outside Gare St. Lazare in Paris. Yes, Paris, nowhere else have so many gone about their daily grind with so much ancient and beautiful masonry towering above their shoulders. It is hot and sunny outside and I was forced into this chain as the classic Parisian cafe does not deign to offer wireless internet to its patrons. Yesterday I sat on a boulder with a couple of friends in the evening sun on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Today I’m en route to Normandy.
In just over a week – 15 August – I’ll be back in Australia. I’m looking forward to the banksia trees and the peppermints, to seeing a few good friends and feeling the sand under my feet as I jog along Leighton beach. I won’t have much internet access in Normandy, so this blog may have to recommence in a little over a week. Then I’ll have time to reflect on more of the journey.
I’m hoping to visit St. Mont Michel in the coming days. Let Providence make Luck be on my side.