Bumping in to best friends

As luck would have it, we were in the same place (well, almost) at the same time as our wonderful friends (hell, not friends, they're family), Marianne and John Davies.  They have been in Birmingham celebrating with John's mum who recently turned 100!  Struth - I remember going to her 80th birthday and I remember I couldn't keep up with Mrs Docherty way back then.


John and Marianne have spent the last couple of days in St Remy de Provence which is where we're heading.  They're on a cruise up the Rhône so we made a cunning plan to rendezvous along the way.  And Viviers is where we found them, which is just south of Lyon.  Should be easy to find!!!


Our hire car (a Mercedes no less) has a GPS and the lovely lady will be able to guide us.  Surely.  However, small problemo - there are multiple Viviers en Français.  Merde.  We got so bloody close and then our navigational friend had us heading back on to the motor way in the wrong direction.  Well, arguments ensued and I must say, once we arrived in Viviers and met up with John and Marianne, it took quite a while before the old boy and I spoke to each other....  


And I thought GPS's were supposed to stop all arguments.  Ha!


Here are some photos with us having lunch.

Au revoir mes amies.  See you back in Australia....