Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 11:00 PM

Today we left our apartment in Sarlat for Paris. We packed the rest of the bags in the car. We were able to drive down the main street and park right outside our apartment even though the parking was for truck deliveries - the parking lady let us stop briefly after she realized what we were doing.
We drove to Bordeaux (for the second time) but arrived later than we expected because we decided to stop for lunch in a village on the way which proved to take longer than we wanted.

We dropped off the car at the airport. This car Grandad and Grandma had effectively owned for the passed 3 months they were in France but the arrangement was that they just return it to the people and that was that. 

We caught the bus to the TGV station in Bordeaux which took about 45 minutes, meaning that we arrived at the train station with only 15 minutes before departure, however there were still more to do. Grandad and Daddy raced over to the Hotel Regina where we left our other bags yesterday, then quickly dragged them back to the spot where Grandma and I were waiting. Then we discovered we had to go to another platform, so we had to drag our total of 14 bags down the stairs and back up again. We just made it to the train with 5 minutes to spare before it departed!

Unfortunately, about an hour in, the train stopped. As it turned out, there was a tree fallen over the line from a storm only an hour earlier. We were ultimately delayed 3.5 hours and got to Paris by about 9:30pm. We got a taxi (only one which was amazing considering the number of bags) to our apartment via another location to pick up the keys.

Didn't get to bed till nearly midnight!