Mont St. Michel

Since last year’s vacations worked out so well, I decided to make use of my car and do another road trip. I’ve been to France a couple of times, but those have been overshadowed by a particularly bad New Year’s in Paris about a decade ago.

I wasn’t feeling to great back then and the stereotypical Paris experience didn’t help either(although it got better after I got back into speaking a little French for the last two days).. But since then, I’ve had a couple of invitations to IBM in Montpellier and down in the south, people are a little more relaxed and I really liked my stays there, so I decided to give it another go and I had a great couple of days driving around the Grand Est and the Hauts-de-France. I mostly stayed in the cheapest of cheap F1 motels, because they are reasonably priced, reasonably clean(most of the time) and provide ample parking right behind the motel.

Long story short: I really enjoyed getting out of my daily routine for a bit, watching the landscape zoom by and stretching my legs walking a few smaller cities and catching regional sights.