Castelnau des Fieumarcon
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First days walk for the children
The bad weather forecast did not arrive and the mornings walk started in fine weather. After only about a km we had already been told off many times for William in bare feet. Fortunately William was walking with Sabine so she got growled at. We thought we would stop after 15km but at the 15 mark the children were still full of energy so we continued on for another 9km to portomarin. We were surprised at our speed and averaged 4.5km an hour and were passing ...
A Canicule on the Canal
'Canicule" or dog days is French for a heat wave.
It's funny how you never stop learning, especially things about yourself. Taking the Olympic theme, I was always a sprinter. I did dabble quite successfully with the longer distances, but always had to go at it like a bull in a china shop, hence the 1hour 40mins time I achieved for a half marathon. And, like a sprinter I go at everything else in my life at break neck speed, which is why I think that ...
On the hunt for lavender
... the first day we explored Nimes as it has some roman ruins and the best preserved roman amphitheatre in the world. The theatre is also used to host Spanish bullfighting which gives Nimes a real Spanish flavour with plenty of tapas bars.
On our 2nd day we started to explore Provence with our first stop being Avingnon. Unfortunately for us we happened to go during the annual festival which meant the town was over ...
Sorry.
Sorry everybody. We have been so busy in France ai haven't been able to update much. When we leave France I will find more time for blogging. To keep it short, for the rest of the time in Paris we went to Versailles, went on a chocolate tour, went to the louvre and went to a fair. Now that we are in Provence(thanks to a high speed train) we have been driving all over the south of France to do stuff. On our first ...
Canal life
... have all been fantastic but we are putting on a lot f weight. The countryside is amazingly beautiful.
So far our very limited French has been adequate - we can find food and drink and toilets so that covers our needs.
Some photos below...
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