Campanile - La Rochelle - Puilb Puilboreau

... 10 86; лягуш 77;к попро 73;овать. Прихо 78;у вечер 82;ом в ресто 88;ан - на тебе, в меню лягуш 82;а. Grenouilles. В пер ...

Another beautiful day of cycling. Not quite sure what I’ll do when the weather changes, I’ve been so spoiled with beautifully sunny days each and every day.

Cycled through quite a few ‘petit cite du character’ today. Tiny little villages with fabulous old churches or other buildings. Narrow streets with what seems to not be a soul about. Until the noon day bells start to chime ...

... I didn't photograph all the things I cooked, but in some cases I needed to remember how we put the meal together on the plate so I tooks some pics to make it easier to replicate these dishes in future. Nerdy I know, but you will thank me if you come round for dinner one night and the food looks really pretty!

xox Hannah

... late but the really freindly staff and the fact the flight only cost me 18 pounds made up for that.

Anyway, enough boring stuff! So the cooking school is a guesthouse and cooking school combined in a really pretty white building with classic blue wooden shutters. It is surrounded by about half an acre of garden, most of which is fruit trees and veggies which we used reguarly in the cooking. There are also a couple of smaller self contained units on the property ...

... heat and a stiff Atlantic breeze, and you can imagine why. It was un-escapable! The island is geared up for bikes tho, so we got our first proper chance to use the bikes. We cycled to the main town on the island for some ice-cream, then headed back to watch the sun set on the beach. This was more like it!



Day 7: L'Epine - La Rochelle.
L'Epine had turned out to be a bit of a let down, and the smell was giving us the boak, so we decided to ...

We stayed 1 night in Paris with Olivier, after we spent 2 days in Rouze in Pyrenee. We finished 1st week of our vacation in Toulouse (trip by canal). Second week, we stayed in Talmont st.Hilaire in Francois´s parents.
Vendee is very very nice :-) !!!

... space between the wheelie bins and the no parking signs beside the captinerie

We'd been on the road four hours instead of 40 minutes and covered 250km.
There are definite lessons to be learned from this:
1. Do not bother if you have a lazy lunchtime chat first and can't hope to arrive before 2 or 3pm.
2. Plan at least three sites first, especially in a barge on wheels, as you might not squeeze into the first couple of aires you find.

... we oog in oog met een onafzienbare oceaan en begrijpen dan ook wel dat als je zo als wij aan lagerwal vaart wind en watermassa om je oren vliegen. Gelukkig wordt het in de havenmond rustiger en zien we de eerste contouren van de oude stad ingeklemd tussen industrie en flatgebouwen. Maar dat is een beetje vertekend beeld, want als we het stadje openvaren zien we hoe het er eigenlijk geweldig bijligt. Om de stad binnen te varen passeren we twee imposante torens, en gaat er door ...

... b gr*ffiti, mille kr**pisid sinn* v*ngist*tud mereväel*sed.

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Õhtusöögi koh*ks v*lisime rohkete restor*nide se*st kõige *hv*tlev*m* j* hinn* poolest sobiv*m* menüüg ...

... French people. For lunch we had hamburgers at an American restaurant. We went back to the beach and around 6pm we left. I had a very bad sunburn. The worst in my life actually. That night we had dinner at a restaurant near the ocean and had fish lasagna. It was great. That night my legs were killing me. Ms Wolf gave me some aloe vera, but I ended up putting wet towels on my legs to get to sleep.