Great last breakfast in France. Our host Florence just kept bringing stuff in. She has been great and her place a perfect base.
Met a mother and son from Canada at breakfast. They had done a bike-and -barge tour in Belguim then trained to Bayeux. They were supposed to be elsewhere but there was a train related strike Thur so they had to quickly find a place.
Turns out the guy, is military, and done significant time at Vernon which enabled him to participate/volunteer a lot at Ironman Canada so we had some good conversation. They were trying to figure out how to rectify their itinerary given the changes in train schedules.
The drive to Paris was event-less. The last mile to the rental-car return lot next to train station was, well, not event-less. After a number of hairy-scary loops and breath-holding multi-lane round abouts we finally found the street and got the car dropped off.
Then like most airports, the track for our train to Zurich seemed like 2 miles away. Finding our actual seats and storage for our luggage took some time then we settled in for 4 hr train ride.
We were fortunate to run into a very friendly and helpful customer service rep at Zurich airport. He helped us get our bearings then later when we were outside looking for hotel-bus zone he recognized us and said we should check our bags and bike tonight at air canada's desk and not have to carry them to hotel and back etc.
He finished his smoke and said come on I take you. He did too. Using the staff elevator and hall-pass we got to air canada check in. They were to open in 10 minutes and we scooped 1st in line. Nice to have that done the night before.
We are to overnight at ibis then head back to airport at 8am for our 10am flight to Toronto.
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