A night in Roissy (Ile de France)
We totally knew, going to Brittany over Christmas/New Year, that a lot of tourist attractions would be “fermé“. Goes with the holiday territory, right? We were just happy to be in France, eating French food, shopping at French supermarkets etc… On our way home, we had an overnight stay at the airport as the Air Canada direct flight leaves around 11.30 in the morning and it’s too stressful trying to get to the airport from Paris early in the morning, so we generally stay at the airport. We’ve had some good experiences with Park Inn, which had some good reviews on Trip Advisor. I knew exactly where it was (in the little village of hotels near Roissy-ville) and I *thought* I knew where the shuttle left from.
All was good. En principe, as they say in France. I was excited to discover the cute little village we had never had time to explore.

Mistake #1: Getting off the Air France bus at the wrong terminal of Charles de Gaulle airport. I have never caught the Air France bus to Roissy before – we usually get the RER train but we had dropped our car at Montparnasse station and the AF bus was right there. (Must mention here that preceding catching this bus had been a 4 hour speed drive from Dinan to Paris on crazy icy, windy, sunny roads trying to beat the clock so we wouldn’t have to pay an extra day’s rental. Then I had to navigate us into Paris proper off the periphérique. That deserves a medal. Then we had to lug our bags to the luggage lockers because we were going out to lunch and a last jaunt in Paris before we headed off to the burbs…). Charles de Gaulle airport has a number of terminals and I am just so used to our little routine (have I mentioned that I am Taurus?) that I was thrown with the changement.
So we waited. And waited. Finally we realised we were not waiting in the correct place for the shuttle. Headed to where we thought we were supposed to go (a mirror image location on the other side of the terminal building) and waited. And waited. Then I saw a shuttle going to the same little hotel village but not our hotel. I ran over and asked the driver if he could take me (ahem – us) to our hotel. In fabulous French fashion, he told me that becaause I had a lovely accent he would take me there but would have to drop me next door. Fine. Alicia and Neil ran over with all our bags. Driverman was a bit affronted.
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