On the Road
Time to switch gears and head out of town. The really nice thing about the Rick Steves tours we have taken, and this one also, is that the bus is always able to seat far more people than are on the tour, meaning that you are not crowded. Linda likes to sit up front, while I prefer the back. It really doesn’t matter if couples sit together or not, as there is plenty of room, especially in the back half of the bus. This one has a husband and wife driving team from the Netherlands. I liked the monitors above the aisle that showed the GPS screen of where we were. To say the bus is very nice is an understatement. Linda in front of the Dijon mustard section at one of our rest stop breaks. There wasn’t a lot of driving today, the first section being the longest at 2 1/2 hours. What they do is stop every hour and a half for about 30 minutes, so it isn’t like you are sitting on the bus for hours at a time with no break. And no, we did not buy anything, though there were a number o...