So there's an organisation for cyclotouristes called Warm Showers to which we belong. Its members offer up their homes / garages / showers or sofas to other cyclotouristes who may be passing through their places of domicile. Our sofa bed in Brooklyn is on offer, for example, although the only person who's showed any interest in touring through NYC on a bicycle had his five (count 'em!) kids in tow and I had to explain that it might be a bit of a squeeze, what with the dog, the cat, us, him, the five kids and the size of our apartment.
Anyway, we'd wanted to do a lot more warm showering on this trip than we did, mainly because our itinerary didn't really seem to collide with warm shower locations. Today's did, however, and that's how we came to make the acquaintance of the lovely Nico & Noelle.
After some initial confusion (did we or didn't we confirm the date and time of arrival? what number was their house? eeek! bloody hell we're vegetarians... and would we have imposed if we'd known that nico had a theatre opening that night AND that they have a 14-month year old boy with the most amazing blue eyes named Baptiste?) the evening ended up being one of the best of our whole trip (for us anyway). Our hosts were the epitome of congeniality: they were so lovely, charming, welcoming and warm, and so interesting to talk to, that the kilometres seemed to fall off like so many pebbles off our backs.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment