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Laval
... was 40 km along the edge of the Loire River riding on basically a levee bank.
The Loire River seems to be suffering the same fate as the Murray-Darling basin - too much water being taken out from a combination of over farming and too little going in due to climate change/variation.
We checked into our Ibis hotel on the edge of town. We were both fatigued so decided to eat in the hotel restaurant ...
My First French Fete!!
... is BEAUTIFUL. I want to live in a house just like it someday. It's a beautiful old farm house, redone on the inside. I hope to post some pictures of the house soon!!!
So, anyhow, ma premiere fete francais (my first french party)! It was fun! I was definitely the americain outsider though. But everyone I talked to was really very nice! I met a nice girl ...
A close shave!
... a Saturday morning they could be out, so i wandered in the town for an hour or so, came back still nothing. So i sat around for a while, eventually thought something wasn't quite right so went to the betting shop accross the road and explained i needed to call Thomas (fortuantly i had his number), so i called, but no reply- eventually after a little more waiting he called back, and explained to me that he thought i ...
Losing Nick to the washing - again!!
... The laundrette is in a small hut with the disabled shower, toilet and washroom, when I got in there Nick was just folding the clothes, he'd got his laptop on listening to Johnathan Ross, having a skype chat with Angus, he'd got a chair set up against the water heater, he'd had a long hot shower, a peaceful s**t and his weekly shave, he almost looked disappointed that I'd found him. He really ...
Wi-fi & laundrettes, a little bit of heaven!!
We had a lazy morning just doing the usual. After discovery time we had some lunch then got packed up and headed off to La Fleche, about 40kms outside of Le Mans.
The drive was about 2 hours so we all settled into our driving positions, boys locked onto their DS's, Nick driving and me checking every move Tom Tom made! I haven't driven for so long now I think I might have forgotten how - what a shame!!! Nick is loving ...


