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The Road to Dieppe
Drove down the coast towards the fishing port of Dieppe. Stopped at *********** the way where there was a Harley Davidson festival of all things. Drove onwards through Ault which signalled the start of the huge white cliffed coast.Arrived in Dieppe and explored the town. Small fishing port with a few churches and a medieval castle looking down in the ...
La naissance du veau
This morning, Tommy packed his bag ready to go to Luchon tonight and James, Billy and Matty went out with Pierre-Marie to erect an electric fence. Alastair and Caroline visited Brigitte to book the gite again for next August! (All ideas of being more adventurous have evaporated during the last fortnight as we have had such a good ...
A sociable day
... to show the others. It seemed very peaceful and surprisingly happy to be held -maybe it was just terrified! (They let it go in the fields afterwards).
My hare is called Ralf and I carried him in my hat! (Matty)
In the evening, we went into the farmhouse for a drink with Pierre-Marie and Brigitte. They are very kind and patient with our Pidgin-French! We were given delicious desserts too -a tarte au poire and the local tarte a l'ancienne.
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Route de la paille
Today we decided to get up on time and go on a nice cycle ride through the local valleys and get some bread from Carrefour. That was what we meant to do, but instead it turned into a sightseeing tour to see the local straw sculptures (see pictures), a nostalgia tour to see an old gite we went to, and a let down seeing as Carrefour was closed over lunch. Along the journey there were many slow, uphill slogs, and then an equal number of fast downhill rushes. Overall ...
Cycle ride up the valley
... on food on the way back, but the boys were very anxious to be back, as they had made an arrangement to visit their new friend 'Albi', whose parents own a house at the other end of Aix-en-Issart. They are English and live in Dulwich,but visit their French home often. Albi and his sister visit Pierre-Marie to help with the milking and he ended up playing table-tennis with the boys last time he came.
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