Another day of farewells. Having said goodbye to the Barillots yesterday, today was the day to farewell the Jegous, but not before lunch! Again another fine meal, but this time with a difference. There is some French tradition that I am not quite an authority on that says that 2 days after NY you have to eat the Gallette de Roi. Far enough, but while the host is standing at the head of the table cutting up the cake the youngest member of the party (Sarah) must sit under the table and nominate who is to receive each slice. At the end of it all Sarah and I received the preferred sliced and won the treasures buried in the cake.
Lunch over it was time for us to go to our special low cost low star hotel near the station so we could get the early morning train to Paris tomorrow. But on the way I wanted to see one of Le Corbusier's buildings in Nantes that I had heard of. Turning up late on a Sunday evening to an occupied apartment builing was probably not the best plan., but we were befriended by one of the residents and invited to her apartment for an in depth recital on the development. Probably a bit more than we had bargained for but it was informative.
Afer that it was a sad farewell to the Jegous.
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