And this is our last day in France. We visited a fortress near Rochefort, Le Citadelle. It is on the ocean and has the usual walls surrounding the interior fort. On the land side there was four archways in a moat which they could pull in the walkways that was on top of the arches if they were under attack.
And one last shot from Thierry's backyard of his father's beautiful flowers.
We had our last dinner with everyone, said our goodbyes and then packed everything tonight as we were leaving at 2:30 am for the airport. The airport is in Bordeaux which is 2 ½ hours away and Thierry is going to drive us. Like I said a few times already, he is great and has made this trip wonderful. As we w
ere getting up so early we just slept in chairs downstairs in the living room. Which wasn’t too bad, we both fell asleep pretty quickly. All of our bags were ready to go and at 2:30 we were loaded up.
One last thing that was really cool before we left for the airport was we heard a cuckoo bird. They really do call ‘cuckoo’ just like the cuckoo clocks. Pretty cool.
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