47 comment(s) for "Heading Home to France after a Month’s Cycling Holiday":

  1. Welcome home! What a brilliant trip you’ve had – you and your hubby are fantastic role models for travel 🙂

    Thanks for your Twitter photos along the way. Good on ya, and enjoy your own bed, shower, and everything else at home — until your next trip 🙂

    Cheers.

  2. Barbara

    Thanks for a fascinating trip. My son and daughter-in-law are so enthused by your trip that they want to try it next year – with me as child-minder, back-up support driver of course!

  3. I can’t believe how many cycling kilometres you did! I’m impressed.

  4. A big welcome home , Rosemary and Jean-Michel. What a trip you have had! Your efforts truly put me to shame. The scenery has been beautiful , but I bet you will be happy to just look down over your amazing linden trees once more 🙂 Jill

  5. Bulgaria! That should be fun. We’ll still be in the Balkans then so who knows, we might finally be able to meet up.

  6. Pat in Toulouse

    I’m catching up with your blog posts after my own holidays (which I spent… in Paris, showing around the daughter of an American friend and a friend from New Zealand). On your trip, you have seen so many things that are sooo familiar to me – it is always interesting to read about the impressions others have about these things.
    To answer your question: yes, Germans have separate covers in private homes, too. When I first moved in with a French boy-friend, we tried the common “couette” thing. Well, when you’ve been used to having your own duvet all your life, it is apparently difficult to share. I turned out to be a duvet-hogger. My husband and I have been going back and forth between the common and separate duvets for 20 years now and I find the separate ones so much more convenient! The sheet and blanket are not an option for me either, I always end up with the sheet crumpled up near my feet and the blanket in my face – and when I’m sharing a bed with someone, we wake up having one of them each and either are cold (the one who gets only the sheet) or uncomfortable (the one with the – often scratchy – blanket). I don’t mind the common mattres, but the separate mattresses make a) for a larger bed and b) for better sleep, as the other person’s movements don’t make your own mattress move. Of course, there is the gap in the middle, which the Germans call “Besucherritze”, visitor’s crack *g*. We have surrounded that problem by getting a bed which is “têtes et pieds relevables”. The two mattresses are connected in the middle by an unseen (and unfelt) zipper and separated at the head and foot. Really the ideal solution.

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