I’m sitting down to write this on Friday night, while I wait for traffic to die down heading out of Angers.

This morning, there must’ve been an accident on the highway into the city. The traffic was backed up on the regional road, about 2.5km before I even arrived at the highway. Thinking I’d be clever, I quickly veered off and took a “short-cut” through the vineyards and into one of the neighbouring villages, figuring I’d come into Angers ‘the back way.’

No luck. Not only did some others have the same idea, but that road tends to be busy at the best of times during peak traffic hours. In the end, I was about an extra 35mins getting to the school.

After 7 contact hours with students, the last thing I want to do is jump right back into the heavy, supper-hour traffic. Sitting in the school library (empty of students who’ve returned home for the weekend), ‘talking to you’ is way better than playing start-stop-leapfrog in traffic. I’ll let things cool down & head back a little later.