Day 1 and 2, Fri 29/6 Sat 30/6 Planes, Trains and Automobiles

We were up far too early for our liking, 3 AM and arrived at Adelaide Airport by 4.30 ready for our 6.30 AM departure. Our first leg was Adelaide to Hong Kong which took about 9 hours. We arrived in Hong Kong and had about a 10 hour “stop-over”. We decided to stay in the terminal and spent our time reading, walking, people watching and getting bored. Back on the next plane we were ready to take-off around 11 PM. Unfortunately a problem with both the air-conditioning and air supply to the engine meant we sat on the tarmac for nearly 3 hours. This long 12 hour flight now was even longer due to this delay. Arriving in Munich in the morning, we had already missed our connecting flight to Charles De Gaul but luckily were put on the next available flight and given a voucher (enough to buy a coffee) for our trouble. Once at Charles De Gaul airport we collected our luggage and took a train into Paris to meet Lyn and Steve and then catch another train out to the rural area of Normandy to the town of Pontorson. There were a few little hic-cups along the way but we arrived at our B’nB around 8 PM. Luckily it is still light here until about 10 PM so we wandered down the very pretty streets of Pontorson and found a restaurant. We enjoyed a magnificent dinner and then returned to our accommodation for a much needed good night’s sleep. We are staying in a very old and tiny apartment in the main street. It is 3 levels high. Level 1 is Kitchen, meals and lounge area plus a toilet that is sort of in a cupboard! Up some very steep, narrow stairs leads to a bedroom and a bathroom, including another toilet and up some even steeper and narrower stairs (more like a ladder) to an attic area which has the 2^nd bedroom. I didn’t even attempt to take my suitcase up the stairs as this would have been an accident waiting to happen.