Vacation Cut Short

Geri's father, Theophile (Tuffer) Gauthier, died Monday morning (our time), which was also Geri's birthday.  So we have cut short our trip.

Aeroplan Chris (as we call him now) was great and moved us onto a flight tomorrow at no cost.  Our landlord has also been very helpful and is driving us to the TGV station this morning so that we can catch a train to Paris.  SNCF very good on the change too, and no mention was made of the reasons.  all very impressive save for the fact that we couldn't deal with Aeroplan through their Paris office and instead had to wait for the Montreal HQ to open.

Anyway, we're leaving Aix early and skipping Paris save for an overnight stay before we fly to Brussels, then Montreal, then Toronto, then drive home tomorrow.  Gonna be a long day just chock-full of jetlag I think.

Still, thanks to Aeroplan Chris, we swapped the bizarre routing for the retention of our business class seats and so it should go well.

Thus endeth the vacation and this series of blog entries.  Look for more in the fall when we head to Manchester for one of the last tours of the old Coronation Street set before it is torn down.