Montpellier and Sète

I went to Montpellier this weekend.
So it all started Saturday at 8am when I met my covoiturage guy at the train station.  He was a 54 year old guy with an old car.  It was his first time carpooling and you could tell.  He was super friendly though- he couldn't understand my French very well and in the mean time, he blasted an apparently famous French singers CD and sang along.  We got to Montpellier and I was dropped off somewhere, it was around where I wanted to be, it's just that I didn't quite understand where I wanted to be.  Everyone says the Odysseum is easy to get to and right off the highway so it's convenient.  So, I get out of the car and start walking towards where the signs say centre ville.  I also had printed off google directions- which I'm pretty sure are useless in Europe.  I think I walked around this one huge round-about a couple times before deciding where to go.  After asking several people for directions (I don't know what I'm going to do in Italy) I found my way downtown.  Turns out, it was very simple, I just had to go straight and it wasn't very far.
After picking up a map and some information at the Office de Tourisme I took the train (20 minutes) to Sete which is on the Mediterranean Sea.  I could tell on the way to Montpellier that I was getting closer to the sea because of how the vegetation was changing and everything was more green.  It was raining in Sete which helped me feel like I was getting a real experience of the sea, instead of a nice sunny vacation.  :)  The tourism office was closed, so I wondered around and climbed up this giant hill that had a beautiful view all the way around.  At the top, I stopped to pray in the chapel there.  Once again I was reminded to put God first in everything.  I left feeling a lot happier.
I got back to Montpellier, ate a kebab, and then found the hostel where I was staying.  It was great, right downtown.  I went out once more to walk around since I like European cities at night since they're all lit up and there's people out and about.
Sunday I wanted to go to the church dedicated to St. Roch and they have his remains there, unfortunately it was closed.  So, I went to the Cathedral for Palm Sunday Mass.  It was really beautiful.  Afterwards I wandered around the city eating my peanut butter and honey sandwiches I had packed to save money, and wearing my yellow poncho since it was still raining.  It's funny because apparently it's really strange for it to rain a whole weekend in Montpellier and yet it did for me.  This didn't change my mood though, I was happy the whole time and enjoyed the looks I got from people for wearing a yellow poncho.  Montpellier is beautiful, I visited the botanical gardens and other historical monuments.  It seemed like there was a treasure around every corner with little parks, fountains, and statues.  They have a new part of town that they designed after the Greeks and the path by the river is nice for walking and people watching.  :)
I also carpooled on the way home.  We had a hard time finding each other since we said we would meet at the Odysseum again.  This time I took the tram just to make sure I got to the right spot, eventually all 4 of us found each other and I arrived safely back in Rodez.