This section takes us through four days of Delphine’s odd, improvisational vacation, and up to about the halfway point in the movie. In begins on Sunday, July 21 with her still in Cherbourg. Her friend is about to leave, returning to Paris, and the original plan was for Delphine to stay there a bit longer. But she asks to return with her — and who can blame her? She doesn’t know the other people very well and has to walk on eggshells a lot of the time, good for her for knowing when to cut and run.

The other adults act both surprised and unsurprised at the news, which she doesn’t break to them herself. We hear a little from the children, who seem to be disappointed that she’s going.

So she’s back in Paris on Monday, July 22 and decides to go for a walk with a book, maybe sit in the park and read for a bit. Except from really weird guy is making eyes at her there. He’s a few inches shorter than her, very muscular, and is wearing a very strange loose fitting muscle shirt with jeans — he looks ridiculous, but perhaps in a way more socially acceptable in the 80s. Delphine notices him while reading, so she picks up and walks away, but he follows her.

They get to a crosswalk and Delphine says to him “would you like a picture?” He responds that she is beautiful, so why not. She walks off. This prompts her to call Jean-Pierre to ask him if his cabin in the Alps is still available.

It is now Tuesday, July 23 and Delphine has arrived in the Alps. She is supposed to meet a man with the key to the cabin, but he’s not available, so she drops her bags at a store that offers to look after them and goes off on a hike. Earlier, she said that traveling alone to the mountains is not a good idea and I agreed with her, I’m surprised she went ahead with it … and it turns out that she’s bored very quickly.

She returns to the store where the man with the key has now arrived, but Delphine has changed her mind, she’s decided to go back to Paris. The guy makes a joke that at least she gave her bags a walk and some sunshine.

Back to Paris now on Wednesday, July 24. She goes to a beauty parlor, where the friend she was with in Cherbourg works. Delphine explains her not-even-a-day-trip to the Alps (by the way, I don’t think a there-and-back from Paris to the Alps is possible, even by train, but I’ll cut Rohmer some slack.)

She starts to cry lightly as she explains how none of this is turning out as she hoped and she doesn’t want to travel somewhere else alone. Remember, the French have five weeks of vacation per year, so she has a lot of alone time potentially left in Paris … more time to dodge weird men who can’t take a hint.