B & B Hotel La Rochelle Centre

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... means lunchtime and everyone emerges! Every town has it’s own clock tower which regularly doles out the hours (and ¼, ½, and ¾ hours) of the day.

Today we stopped in a beautiful little park outside the clock tower for lunch and were lucky enough to be there for the noon time treat. Not just 12 bells, there was about 10 minutes of different songs and other tunes being played out. We sat and ...

Ok so I'm getting a bit behind in my blogs as I've arrived at my uni now and want to write about that. I am having a really good time and re-living being a fresher, which is kind of funny! I also have my laptop set up now - yay! So as a simple solution I'm going to tell you about the food I cooked by posting some photos of it ...

... have an airport with flights back to London, which is what Ive just done today. Such a tiny little airport though, it was quite funny! There are just two people on check in, there is one bar and a few vending machines and one tiny duty free stall. There is one departure lounge area and everyone just walks out the doors and on to the tarmac to get on the plane. Flew with Ryanair and, despite everyone's warnings, they were perfectly fine. The flight arrived about 15 ...

... the D-Day landings are buried. I found it more moving than I'd expected actually, as the scale and number of cemeteries like this is a bit overwhelming. It was great to see the cemetery so well maintained though, and despite the nature of the place it was encouraging to see how strongly the locals felt about maintaining these cemeteries. Feelling suitably downbeat, we set off for Mont St Michel. The weather was still a bit dreich, and that didnt change ...

This was
another disaster journey really. We started late after an extended chat with a couple from Ireland and set off under the command of TomTom taking a left out of the car park to our destination 40km away.
After two hundred metres TomTom found its feet and continued its reboot problem and we had resort to using GoogleMapping again. As GoogleMaps does not re-route we had to follow its directions to the letter.
Dutifully, and as ...

... taken us on some routes which are basically mud roads across fields, the locals don't seem to impressed and I'm worried its going to take us of the edge of a cliff one day soon! All in all we are having a great time, getting use to being full time travelers and just enjoying the ride. After another day or two here I think we are heading to the dordogne and then further south to the Pyrenees then on to Spain, but there's no rush... 

... up, taking vitamins and eating lots of vegetables, and keeping in perfect health, despite Amy, Meredith, Bek, Doug & Josée all having had (or still currently having) colds/flus. Gold medal for my immune system. Okies, all. This was probably a bit of a mundane entry, but I just felt like posting, and while the internet is working I though I would make the most of it: "en profite" as they say here. Love to you all, Gem

... Note the French Flag up top). And, honestly, la Tour de Saint-Nicholas was the best. Le Tour de la Lanterne was amazing, but a little high and scary in the respect, despite its beauty. La Tour de St-Nicholas, on the other hand, was more like a labyrinth. And I do love a good labyrinth. It was amazing ! I have so many photos I would love to show you, but I can't put them ALL up - I'd blind you ...

... Where to go now? The supermarket and then back to the accommodation? By now I was so exchausted, and so hot, not having expected to amazing summer weather here, that I said, probably more abruptly than I meant to, that I had to go and get rid of my suitcase first. Ahh well. It worked, and we went back to the accommodation... Here it was... We went upstairs (lugging suitcase again) and down corridors to a door, where Rebekka stopped ...