De La Clape Narbonne

We left Barcelona, Spain early this morning and arrived off the coast of Leucate Plaga around 10 AM. The beach here is rated as the best bare beach in the world and we were here to participate. The weather was cool and overcast so there weren't many people out and no one was naked. We took a tender to shore and chilled for a while before returning to the yacht, disappointed that the weather had dashed our hopes of the perfect ...

Well, finally - after a false start setting out to pick up friends from Pau airport a day early! - first night: moored up alongside the Canal du Midi, just south of Beziers. Some very noisy ducks for company... Bit of a gloomy one weather-wise. Rained last night, but forecast suggests brightening up gradually as day goes on. Slowing our departure from ...

... hill full of massive bugs and locusts. It was this night I had my first freak out. We were drinking wine whilst engaging in philisophical convosation when I heard a noise which sounded exactly like Hyienas. When I turned to see six massive badgers I ran and screamed like a small girl to my tent. The most embarassing part is that I hadn't registered them as badgers and I was screaming "Hyienas!!"

... bah d'accord. Et quand dois-je y être?
Bah dans 4 jours!
Ahhhhh, me dis-je intérieurement, mais non!!! Ok, donc on voit tout ça lundi.
A bientôt!"

Bon, super, je viens d'apprendre que je pars mardi en Hollande pour 4 mois et je n'ai qu'une journée pour tout organiser.

Super, bon bah sur ce, on va aller à la plage, peut-être est-ce une mauvaise blague et que il n'y aura plus rien ce soir ;)

All good things have to end and we said good bye to Graeme and Rita. After having a swim and moping around Sam said - thats it - lets go out, so off went.

The first stop was St Guiliem le desert which is a lovely little town north of Herepian. We then went on to Cirque de Navacalles which is ...

Another leisurely start and then off out we went after a big hail storm that delayed our departure until after lunch.

We headed up towards lake Saligou to add our names to the banks of red rock and then we founded a site where there are dinosaur footprints. Quite an interesting site

On looking up the nearby hill Greame saw a ruin so after looking at each other we ...

Yep it was later start however Ethan was very pleased to have Graeme up and endulging in an early morning swim. Jen and Graeme went for a walk while we went and collected up the pastries for a late breakfast

After a lazy morning and lunch we headed up the Gorges D'Heric for a swim in the rock pools. It was fantastic and the coolest we had been in days.

Another barbeque and a considerably quieter evening all round!!!

Off for another full on day in the sun and another scorcher. It was 30 deg in the shade by 9:30am. Later in the day it touched 40 in the shade.

We drove to Nimes at visited the roman ampitheatre which is 2000 years old. Amazing building but perhaps not as much impact as it had temporary seating errected in ...

... fact that you could purchase 10 litres of wine for 10 euros probably did not have anything to do with it. Nick told us that we got lucky the first week because the wind hardly blew. During the last four days I came to understand why all the trees were growing at an angle.

That (forever) concludes our time working on a vineyard:)

Some of you might have picked up on the fact that I edited some of Deannes previous work, can you tell where?

... favour of the nasty. It was therefore, after this long talk, that we have made a big decision to enjoy a short holiday, and then use whatever money we have left to make a new start in Sheffield, with new jobs and a new house together! WE FLY BACK TO MANCHESTER ON WEDNESDAY!!! I just think we must be a lot more 'English' than we ever thought, and maybe took the things we had in England a little for granted, namely friends, family, and ...