Hooray!

Margot says: 

Hooray! We have arrived at last. And what a day. Picked up the hire car – a nifty Toyota Auris Hybrid car with deep purple iridescent duco.

I did a couple of laps of the car park to get the feel but when I looked up at all the signs, multi-laned overpasses etc. I went to jelly and accepted Catherine’s offer to get us out of there.

She was brilliant but my lack of technology skills caused a few problems when I couldn’t master the TomTom!!!

Trip to Amiens was short with such beautiful French landscapes of brilliant, green and gold. I could have stayed right there and painted everything. Our hotel overlooks the magnificent Cathedral and to hear the bells chiming is quite emotional as this wonderful historical building was saved by the Australians during WW1.

Une problem occurred when Catherine attempted to move the car to a parking centre after we had unloaded our excessive amount of luggage. Couldn’t start it. We could get the motor running but it would not move so we had to call for help. After a flirtingly interesting conversation between Catherine and the Service man she is now currently downstairs with said Frenchman and a lass from reception. I think she is having a long driving lesson. Hopefully that will be enough problems. We are joining a tour tomorrow which will encompass all the spots where Cyril served his country. We’ll be wearing his medals and taking lots of photos.