Today I went on a little 1.5 hour road trip to Vannes with my host parents. We met my host mothers granddaughter, Jeanne, there and walked around for a few hours after our picnic of rice salad, bread, crepes, and juice. Jeanne pointed out the fashionable shops and told me the best ones for the best prices. After our exploration, we were going to drive Jeanne back to her house in Vannes, then drive back to Laille, where we live. When we were all in the car and ready to go something happened…the battery was dead, the car wouldn’t start. We walked around some more to see if time would help. It did for a few minutes, but after about 20 min we had to call a tow-truck. The tow-truck came and took the car and my host father called a taxi. In the meantime, Jeanne started walking home. It is a 30 min walk so she got a head start. After about 30 min, the taxi came. I watched the meter and every 2 seconds the price went up by 10 cents. By 7pm it was 82.60€. We got in the taxi at 6:40ish. It was 100€ at 7:03. By the time we got home, it was 267.10€. Wow!! Thats $341.25! Now I know, never take a taxi in France.

More later,

~Tara