Camargue Monday the 12th

　
Yesterday we started our day riding in the Camargue. Dennis and I went on a 2 hour ride through the marshes and along the beaches.

 J & P went to the bird sanctuary. It was a beautiful sunny day, temperature in the high 80’s so it would have been a bit too warm for a ride except we had shore breezes.
After our ride we headed for Cannes- a three hour trip. Arriving in the early evening, we opened up the apartment, ordered in pizza and went to bed early.
Some feelings and impressions: coming to Cannes and to our usual bedroom was both comforting and annoying. I must preface this with the fact that my hip was hurting after the ride so I have not been feeling at my best. The long car ride added to my discomfort so the little things were getting to me more than usual. First, we couldn’t find the linen for the beds and then turning on the lights, I remembered how inadequate the lighting is. Of course I couldn’t find by little book light so I had to settle for the dim lighting in the room. Then I wanted to take a hot bath to ease the hip pain and found that the water was stone cold! It seems that the apartment house water heater is heated during the night (cheaper electricity) so by the next evening all the hot water is used up!  Going to bed was my best solution....