We are in Bordeaux now, finally at the tail end of this brutal heat wave. Literally an hour ago the temperature started dropping. It's now down 13 degrees from 100 to 87 and is supposed to drop another 20 degrees overnight and perhaps bring in some rain.
Hopefully Mary's temperature will also fall. We are supposed to take a train tomorrow to the Spanish border and another from there to San Sebastian, because the train track widths are different in Spain from the rest of Europe. But Mary has been feeling crappy the last couple of days and I just bought a thermometer and she's just above 100. Just too high to pretend that it's actually nothing. She went downstairs for breakfast today but couldn't even make it through her coffee before I helped her back upstairs.
In the morning I went out to the Bordeaux Cathedral then brought her home a quiche. In the afternoon I went back to the Musee d'Aquitaine, which I had earlier ascertained had decent AC, at least as far as public sector European buildings go. It was cooler than being on the street, at least. It was a decent museum, albeit with more prehistory and antiquities than I had expected (mostly because I hadn't thought about it before) and then a big jump from the 13th century to the 18th. Turns out most of Bordeaux's wealth came from trading with the new world and a non-trivial portion of it derives from the slave trade. As with museums on our side of the pond, they were reckoning with this legacy in their historical museum.
One good feature in the museum was beanbag chairs spread around, some with comic books next to them. There were signs indicating they were "zones de repose" for kids.
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