Tonight we bought our train tickets to Amsterdam, for the weekend after we finally get our residency cards. We'll also be staying on a houseboat! I had no idea Amsterdam had so many canals, but we scored one on a pretty section sort of near the train station. We can't wait!
It was a bit of an hassle to book the tickets. The Thalys
website kept rejecting all the credit cards we tried. It even rejected by Carte Bleue (!) by asking for some sort of security code, which I filled out the details, but still ended up rejecting. Finally the next day I was able to book via the Amsterdam train website. Apparently having your credit card rejected when buying train tickets to Amsterdam is very common though. Very common and very frustrating! We were able to just go to the SNCF store near us (which unfortunately isn't an option for anyone overseas) until I was able to finally book it online. Of course the price rose by almost $70 (RT, for the two of us) in the 24 hours it took to sort it all out.
Yes, we finally got our appointment for our residency cards (carte de sejour). It's only 4 and a half months after we arrived in France, which is a month and a half after our initial visa expired meaning we're stuck in France until we got our residency card. Oh French Bureaucracy. So hopefully all goes well on February 7th.
Speaking of trips, our trip to Nice is this weekend. We were a bit worried because there was a bunch of flooding in South France over the weekend, with some deaths even, but it was further west of Nice so the hotel assured us everything was good. And the weather is supposed to be spectacular!
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