Comfort Hotel Saint Nicolas La Rochelle

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... our cheese (of course), but had cassis instead of wine for a change. We also had a little friend - a feral cat decided to come and play around my bike.

Stopped a little early of our goal this evening as there was a campground on route. Not having any reference as to what may lie ahead makes things a bit more complicated. Every night is a bit of a gamble of: do we stop now or do we risk it? Some tourist ...

... 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

... plus local apple juice waiting for me. Then cooking classes started about 10 each morning and would go through til about 1 or 2 when we would break for lunch and eat one of the dishes we'd made. The about an hour before dinner Id head back to the kitchen to finish off all the dishes fopr the three course dinjner we'd made. Every night there were at least a couple of guests who werent doing the cooking school to cook dinner for, so it was very a very social affair ...

Bonjour from sunny La Rochelle!

Well not so sunny today actually, hence the decision to finally find an internet cafe and update the blog...

It`s now a week since we set off, and so far it's going great. The van has done really well, and hasnt given us a single problem as yet (touch wood). So here's a quick summary of what we've been up to...

Day 1: Glasgow to Ashford, Middlesex.
Set off in good time and made it down to Steve's quicker ...

... Though i comprehended very little (they were speaking so fast!), children's movies are great to see in other languages ;) To sum up the next two days of La Rochelle i'd say shopping and patissaries. The French cakes are AMAZING!!!! And thick hot chocolate some in a tea pot!! Whee!!!! Bought a French breakfast bowl... suddenly a cup just isn't enough... The beaches were really nice. At low tide we trailed the ancient walls along the stones... they were so white ...

... the uni with Bonnie (she had a class) and I met Bek in the biblioteque (library). At 2 pm she and I walked in to Centre Ville, where we did a little shopping. At the first shop we stopped at, Bek bought 2 pairs of shoes (not frivolously - she set out to buy them after having one pair break on the weekend), and I bought a headband for a whopping 1€95 (reduced from 3€90)! I love it ...

... those boats ? My house is between those boats. </Narnia reference>. But seriously, we live in the MIDDLE of THAT marina. Incroyable, non ? After the first two towers, we all headed down to Earnest's. Earnest is our new friend, the ice cream shop =P I had a scoop of banana and a scoop of rhubarb ice cream. Yes, you heard me : rhubarb ice cream. For rizzles ! Amy, en revanche (on the ...

... us, hey? And I am totally loving this whole having-the-internet-at-my-fingertips thing. Fantastic! And i can almost drink this ice cream... mmmmmm.... Tomorrow will be a full-on day, no doubt, but a good one... P.S. France is 1 hour ahead of England, which was 9 hours behind Australia. So... does that make me 8 hours behind Australia now? Well.... it's 9:45pm here (and only just dark!)8:45pm in England, and 5.45am at home in Australia... Figure that out.

... 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.