That guy might be Jesus, or God, blessing the worthy entrants into Heaven. Not sure of the iconography, we're Jewish.

Is that guy in the center taking the Cub Scout oath?

And, like my VoLvo, it won’t get over anything either..🫣

Often in France and Spain there is a "law" that requires people registering at a hotel to fill in name, address, phone number, email, and dates of stay. You also have to sign the form. No idea why they want this, but they do. In Spain they even took a photocopy of our passports. I just fill it in and let it go. Steve usually stays with the bikes while I do the check in, but this time the host insisted we both had to come in to fill in our own forms. Steve seems to have found all the formalities a nuisance and wrote about them. Maybe he IS becoming a grumpy old man!

Exactly!

Not good... but better.

What were the "intrusive form for the police" for? You have to do that even if nothing has been stolen??
The rules seem reasonable but, yes, annoying in their totality.

True enough. We were able to cycle slowly through the flat bits, but had to push when the sand had drifted into dunes across the path.

Better wet sand than dry sand!

We're the opposite! We try not to carry anything extraneous but it happens, usually when hosts gift us with something. Most recently, it was a bottle of wine and a jar of honey in Monsaraz, Portugal. We gave the wine back because we didn't want to carry it and since we were eating out every night, we knew we wouldn't drink it. The honey, however, we (Al) carried and it is really special stuff.

We are well known for proudly bringing home "unique" products that we can easily find at a local store. They always look so much more interesting when we find them in their source location.

I'm sure I've seen Baleine salt in markets in the Vancouver area so maybe you didn't carry it home.

Along with gophers! 😂

I think I read that these are invasive in California.

So, no furry pet for me!

As usual, Dodie is right..