Yesterday

Getting the train is fine - second year French proves to be useful and the only thing at the station with which you struggle is being asked what sort of return you want; for a specific train or an open return. Looking helpless generally results in a few words of English being spoken so the transaction can then proceed.

Once in Nimes you want to find the Tourist Information so you can get a map of the town. The station has a direction board telling you which door to take for Tourist Information, but thereafter, nothing.

You follow the large leafy boulevard, which ends in a park with a Roman Ampitheatre behind it. The Office de Tourisme is nowhere to be found, but you want to have a look at the ampitheatre in any event.

You notice a very French looking man with onions round his neck, a beret and a bicycle, smelling strongly of garlic.