Tuesday… back home (but the sun is shining!)
Jul 31st 2007PeterGetting My Life Back!
Sunday was fairly quiet, partly because the weather wasn’t that good and partly because we wanted to take things easy before the drive up to Caen for the ferry. However we did go to Segour Le Chateau, a tiny medieval village not far from the house. It was very picturesque, although it had an air of neglect about it. The chateau itself was partly ruined, and I suppose as the village existed to service the chateau, when it fell into decline, the village did too. However once a week it has an open air farmers’ market, where you can buy stuff – then have it BBQ’d on the spot. We didn’t go – it was too wet on the first Monday we were there, and yesterday we left. Maybe next time!
The journey back was fairly uneventful. We seemed to go a long way round, diverting up to Orleans and about 40 miles West of Paris, but although it wasn’t the most direct route, it was about 20 to 30 minutes faster, being mostly motorway. However I’m not sure the time saved was worth it in terms of fuel and tolls, so next time we will use the most direct route!
We arrived at the ferry in good time, had a bite to eat and embarked for the longer trip home – we arrived at the front door at about 11pm last night. We had a lie in this morning, but I am popping into work this afternoon.
I said that Mark and Sue’s house is a work in progress – evidence is here – while we were with them, they half painted the back – it looks much better! More paint is being brought out by the next set of visitors who arrived yesterday! (Paint is expensive in France!)
So an excellent week – many thanks again to our hosts!
Onwards and Upwards!
10 Responses to “Tuesday… back home (but the sun is shining!)”
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Richard on 31 Jul 2007 at 9:06 pm #
welcome home, do you have a good colour?
Peter on 01 Aug 2007 at 2:38 pm #
Not bad – trouble is I have to avoid too much sun, and so I have to plaster on factor 5000! But I am a tad browner than I was when I left!
Richard on 01 Aug 2007 at 8:31 pm #
F 5000 that sounds delicious the best we could do at The Resort was F30 and that had a punch
Peter on 01 Aug 2007 at 10:15 pm #
Ah nostalgia! Not what it used to be! A dream soon lost!
Richard on 02 Aug 2007 at 8:02 am #
My 7.6 actual 6.3 until contention sets in when the children are home was a dream then just a nightmare now getting my line improved as 2.5 k from the source…………..ah ……..loads your pages quickly though
Peter on 02 Aug 2007 at 11:30 am #
I didn’t upgrade tp ADSL+ – still omn a 2Mb/sec link – but very stable! (Onlty advantage of an upgrade really is the imptroved uplink speed – good for the blog – but probably little noticeable difference with the current loading)
Gillian on 02 Aug 2007 at 11:32 am #
too much geek speak boys!! Imbibing the F5000 was not a good idea……..
Peter on 02 Aug 2007 at 12:40 pm #
Gillian – where have you been hiding? (Behind you…!)
Richard on 03 Aug 2007 at 9:03 am #
Don’t you just love thigh length boots
Gillian on 03 Aug 2007 at 3:26 pm #
not as good as the fireman uniforms tho’