May 16, 2009- Travel to Serlat, France

Read about this incredible town and was very excited to see another, fully restored mideivil town. We called from the road to find a hotel, going on the JAFA principle. We reserved a room in a small hotel overlooking town square. Perfect right?

We got to Serlat on market day, which means totally crazy trinket pushers mixed with blue haired grandmothers from Oklahoma and everyone speaking at full volume. After finding a parking place and trekking 1/2 mile to town square (you can't drive there) we were taken up to our room over an ice cream store (Les Chambres de Glasces- the ice cream rooms). Great room, very 17th century. Up 3 narrow flights of stairs and you enter through the cafe on the ground floor.  As we drug Tristan and his stroller up the stairs i began to have nightmares of both having to drag our luggage down the hill and over the cobblestones but then to have the noise of central square on Saturday night keep him awake.  We tried to have a little family quiet hour and then began the trudge back to the car.  Halfway there, we decided that there was no way w

e could do it. We found another room in a hotel with a garage and an elevator and went back to explain in broken french that dragging all the baby equipment up the stairs was likely going to kill us all.

We then settled into our 5th night of french take out: croissants, water, cheese from the store and soda. I'm looking forward to some version of a real dinner at some point.