Well, the drive that was supposed to take a bit over 5 hours took a few hours longer. We had some misadventures with my parent's rental car (from a company called Liigu). It is all app-based and today the car's app stopped communicating with the car...which meant that every time we stopped the car (for gas, rest stops, etc.), we couldn't get the car started again! We couldn't even lock the car, put it into neutral, or disengage the parking break in order to move it--nothing.
One of the times this happened, we had just filled up the gas tank. We were stuck for 30 minutes trying to get the car started--much of the time on hold with customer service in the UK--with a very angry line of French people behind us cursing us out. They kept coming up to us to tell us to move our car, as if we were stupid people who had no idea they were holding up an entire line at the gas station! I kept telling them that we couldn't turn the car on because it was app-based and ensuring them we were really trying to get it going.
This happened a total of four times and made our journey at least an hour longer than it should have been. Then we had several traffic jams and my mom wouldn't drive over the speed limit in Italy (even though everyone else was). So Eric's group got home a good 90 minutes before we did.
I helped my mom return the car to the airport, so we were gone almost 9 hours start to finish.
It's very cold in our apartment after having the heat turned off. It takes a good day or two to warm it back up. We're huddled over the heaters and under blankets and around hot water bottles.
Anyway, we're all home in one piece and just a bit Freezing. Ha ha!
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