Getting slammed by jet lag

Morning started out well, we had breakfast at the hotel, then went out to explore the community. Roissy is a small community of about 3000 inhabitants. It has Gallo-Roman origins and an agricultural base until about the 1960s, at which time it was chosen as the site of Paris's new airport, Roissy Charles de Gaulle. The Roissy in the airport name was later dropped and it is now just know as Charles de gaulle Airport. Roissy's prime source of economy now appears to be hotels. There is everything from budget hotels to high end hotels located here. There are more than 5000 hotel beds in the community.

The main area of the town has maintained its look and feel of a small French town, easy to walk around in, lots of restaurants to eat at, at least two schools, two grocery stores, post office, town hall, bakeries, etc. There is a lovely little park across from the hotel which was originally part of a chateau that had once stood here.

We did a bit of food shopping for ham and baguettes, got our French wine, Pelforth beer and some cider for me. The presence of the humongous CDG Airport next door does not seem to have much affect on the day to day goings on in the town. We took a few pictures, but by 11 AM jet lag had hit with full vengeance to we returned to the hotel for a long nap.

Excuse my dirty lens, I will clean it for the next installment.

looking both ways down the main street