...while I have an internet connection, is that my camera seems to have decided to die and, whilst trying to revive it, I seem to have deleted the photos I have taken so far on this holiday! So, any further photos will be on my phone.
However, the weather is lovely today and temperatures are promised to be around 31 degrees. Not bad!
Rain???
We arrived safely to Floc Ferme, our gite for the week yesterday. It was lovely to catch up again with our hosts, Robin and Susie, but, unfortunately here, it is a 'chilly' 20 odd degrees and we have already had rain twice! It is clearing up now and the sun is doing its best to peep out from behind the clouds, so we are hoping for an improvement for the rest of the week. (Bet the sun is cracking the flags back in Wrexham!)
Internet is very hit and miss here, so blogging will be curtailed and no photos just yet but for now, it's just pleasant to be 'en vacances' and we are making the most of it.
En route again
The last few days have hot, extremely hot, at least 30 degrees if the weather forecasts are to be believed, and we have been visiting the local beaches, riverside areas etc, most of which we have visisted before, but, whereas as few years ago when we first came, it was a quiet, unspoilt area, it is fast becoming busier and more commercialised. In this area, the French are building and extending road networks like there's no tomorrow. One wonders where they are getting all the money from, and then, if one is a cynic, the thought that they are getting it via the EU and that we are helping pay for it comes to mind.
Anyway, we have caught up on the zeds missed on Monday night and are now packed up and ready to set off once again, this time to Coussa, where we shall stay for a week before setting off northwards again.
Not sure what sort of internet connection we shall have next week but if we have one, I shall try to post.
Laters, tout le monde!
Anyway, we have caught up on the zeds missed on Monday night and are now packed up and ready to set off once again, this time to Coussa, where we shall stay for a week before setting off northwards again.
Not sure what sort of internet connection we shall have next week but if we have one, I shall try to post.
Laters, tout le monde!
En France enfin!
Well, here we are, in the south of France, not far from Sete, with free wifi and temperatures of 30 degrees plus.
Keith thought it would be a good idea to drive to Dover on Monday, cross over in the evening and drive all the way to the south by Tuesday evening, taking cat naps in the car during Monday night. I, like a fool, agreed to do this. As it happened, we arrived early at Dover and were able to transfer to an earlier crossing, so we were in France and heading south by eight o'clock, or 9 BST+1, as it is over here. Around midnight we stopped for a snooze and I dreamt of how wonderful the following night would be - in a BED. At 12.45a.m. Keith was boiling the kettle to make us some coffee (The Boy Scouts really missed a gem when he decided not to join them). As we sat at a picnic table in the 'aire' drinking our coffee, Keith said,
"I bet you've never done this at this time of night before."
Amazingly, I couldn't think of one occasion - certainly not sitting in an aire in France, anyway.
To cut a long story short, we made our way down France, stopping at intervals, sleeping at intervals and arrived here in Balaruc les Bains at 3.30 yesterday afternoon.
By 6pm we were both asleep and so we remained, on and off until 7.45 this morning.
At 10 o'clock, we were in the local Carrefour, buying food for today's picnic. (Note to self: Don't attempt to go shopping on the first day of the French sales.)
At 10.15 Keith was hobbling around, clutching the trolley, wondering why he had severe backache and I was promising myself that never again would I agree to anything so ridiculous as our journey south - but never!
Now, I am typing this and he is lying flat on the bed, trying to get better quickly...
or else!
Les Vacances s'approchent!
Soon Keith and I are off to France for a much needed holiday. It's two years since we last went away and we shall do as we always do, take off in the car and drive, apart from the channel crossing, until we get to where we decide we want to go to. After a few days doing that, we shall be going back here, to Yorkshire Pudding's brother's gite and we are really looking forward to it.
Paddy, meanwhile, will be going here for his holiday, where he will have lots of other dogs to play with and, hopefully, won't miss us too much.
Paddy, meanwhile, will be going here for his holiday, where he will have lots of other dogs to play with and, hopefully, won't miss us too much.
Going posh
Seen in the Chester Chronicle this morning, was this item of information. Waitrose is coming to Chester. So it looks as if we are going up in the world around here.
Caviar, anyone?
Caviar, anyone?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Plaster board and dust
So, we're still no further forward on the British Gas smart meter front and I've given up making non-existent appointments with them...
-
So, we're still no further forward on the British Gas smart meter front and I've given up making non-existent appointments with them... -
This is the beach at Burbo Bank, Crosby, home of Antony Gormley's cast iron statues, collectively known as 'Another Place'. We... -
Well, we came to an amicable arrangement, quite unplanned as it happened, because Keith got to navigate the car through people's back y...