Before leaving France for my next major destination, Israel, I met up with a college friend, Cara, who decided to join Gabe and me for our travels this spring. She wanted to do a little WWOOFing in addition to traveling, so we decided to go back to Chateau Ribagnac (to see my previous post about the Chateau, click here). We spent a brief week there, doing some more gardening and enjoying some delicious meals with the Bergot family. All the same characters were there: along with the family, I got to see Patrick's parents again and got to visit Danielle's house. It was lack of space at the Chateau that made the time so short and as a result made a return to the Limoges train station (pictured below) come all too quickly.
I had taken a train from Normandy to Paris to Limoges, then a week later a train from Limoges to Paris. It was a lot of time spent moving in a short week. Back in Paris, we met up with Gabe, who had been by a week delayed in getting to France because of flight scheduling troubles. More flight scheduling troubles were to come. When we got to the airport to fly to Israel, we were told by the airline that we needed a round trip ticket to Israel (not the one-way we'd purchased), otherwise Israeli immigration would assume we were staying to work illegally and deport us. After some finagling (the details of which you'll have to ask me about in person) an agent at our airline found a friend who had seats on another airline where everything would be ok. The seats ended up being cheaper, with the catch that we had to spend the weekend in Paris (one can't really be too disappointed about that). I took the weekend to spend a little more time at some of Paris' cultural institutions. You can see below the Friday night crowds at the Louvre, the free night for students.
I had taken a train from Normandy to Paris to Limoges, then a week later a train from Limoges to Paris. It was a lot of time spent moving in a short week. Back in Paris, we met up with Gabe, who had been by a week delayed in getting to France because of flight scheduling troubles. More flight scheduling troubles were to come. When we got to the airport to fly to Israel, we were told by the airline that we needed a round trip ticket to Israel (not the one-way we'd purchased), otherwise Israeli immigration would assume we were staying to work illegally and deport us. After some finagling (the details of which you'll have to ask me about in person) an agent at our airline found a friend who had seats on another airline where everything would be ok. The seats ended up being cheaper, with the catch that we had to spend the weekend in Paris (one can't really be too disappointed about that). I took the weekend to spend a little more time at some of Paris' cultural institutions. You can see below the Friday night crowds at the Louvre, the free night for students.
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