Montpellier

From Wednesday, 30th October, 2013 through to Saturday, 2nd November, 2013, myself and two other friends went to Montpellier on holiday. Montpellier is a city in the south of France, on the Mediterranean coast, however the city itself is located approximately 10km inland of the sea. 

We booked a room through the website airbnb, and managed to get this rather cute place in the centre of Montpellier. The only problem with it was that the trains passed quite close and shook the entire basement that we were in. Nevertheless, the room was also frequented by 2 adorable cats, so we didn't mind too much.

The room we stayed in.

 During the day time on our trip, we mostly wandered around the town in an effort to explore. We also had coffee/tea at little cafés and had the apéro. 

Place de la Comédie

La Prefecture

Church of Saint Roch

L'Arc de Triomphe

Palais de Justice

Chateau d'Eau

Walking through the Antigone

Walking through the Antigone

Ca and I during dinner on our first night

Halloween Night, my friend Ca and I went out with Ca's friend Co; I was the devil and she was a cat. We met some French people who invited us to their place that evening and invited us back the next night. It was pretty cool.

Ca and I in our costumes

The only problem I had was coming back to Annecy. My journey was complicated enough with 3 different parts to the route. First I had to go to Valence by train, then take the coach to Grenoble, and then the train over to Annecy. The first two parts went fine, the coach was a little late but I had plenty of time to change at the other end. When I got to Grenoble I looked on the board to find out which platform I needed to be on, but my train didn't seem to exist. I asked the man working on the Welcome Desk, who informed me that there was a strike and there was nothing going back to Annecy tonight, not even if I went via Lyon. So I had a bit of a panic to find a place to stay for the night; luckily I had already booked a room with Grenoble for my Christmas trip, so I had the address and telephone number on my emails. I managed to make my way there and stayed the night. I then got on the train at 7.30am the next morning, but even that had problems. The train had to stop twice due to fault signals, so it took at least 30 minutes longer to get back to Annecy than normal. 

Nevertheless, I had a great time with Ca and B, and the French people we met!