Le Domaine Des Nouailles Nontron

Today was eventful yet relaxing. We just walked around this town that had tons of history and shops and was just great. I bought some new jeans and a shirt and found some things that i only wish i had the money to buy! We got a can of Dr. Pepper, which you can't find anywhere by the way, for 2 euros which is like $3.50 or something. Karen keeps getting ...

... foreign gardeners!



Mom and I had a day out in the pretty town of Perigueux, where we walked by the river, strolled through thenarrow lanes, sat drinking coffee in a busy square, and indulged ourselves with gorgeous ice cream. Another evening we set off wandering through shady woodland, past shimmery green lakes and down overgrown backroads into the ...

Distance covered: 22 miles

We chilled out for the day by taking it easy in an Internet cafe. Well I say Internet cafe, but there was no coffee. Just loads of nerds playing Half life and Warcraft. In fact it was the nerdiest place I had ever been (except the maths help sessions in the uni library.... obviously). Then, about ten grown men (early 30's) came in dressed as soldiers, commandos, and mercenaries. It ...

... just heard it was no longer to be found. I almost choked on it when Nico calmly answer: around 1.000 euro.
Good god, I had just casually swallowed some 500 euro worth of wine. Yes, I know, you don't have to be a genius to work it out.

So it was a nice send off, making me forget about tomorrow, the last day.
I'm going to sleep now, I hope I'll dream of the wine, a taste of honey, a taste of France.

... privacy and let them get on with this ritual; do the decent thing and leave the table.

Next morning I can't wait to check them out. To my astonishment the cup is clean empty, not a trace of an ant.
They have been resurrected! Woken from their drunken stupor, staggered back home by the light of the moon, probably sleeping it off right now.
I am overjoyed. I rush to Peter to smugly inform him of this miracle. He can hardly hide ...

... had found their own comfortable way of moving to the music. No self-consciousness, all very easy and somehow soothing. Like the very old gentleman, composed and straight-backed, solicitously holding his sturdy, resolute wife. She was wearing a woolen cardigan and squeezed into a short skirt with a split at the back, that must have been in fashion in the sixties. Probably specially bought, or made, for occasions just like this. Maybe her husband was remembering her as she was ...

Stayed here in Biarritz - thought we would treat ourselves after the rough camping. Very nice indeed! LUXURY indeed.

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This will be a very brief entry, as I've just spent half an hour typing up a detailed account and then lost it all - damn these foreign computers!! Basically, we had a great time in Brittany with warm sunny weather, and if anyone reading this has never been, Go! you'll love it! Beautiful uncrowded beaches, interesting Celtic folklore and history, superb seafood, yummy crepes, cider ...

It wasn't all fun, eating and drinking. As the village, and surrounding area, is in a national park we unintentionally bumped into a few of its protected residents including the infamous "sanglier", or local wild boar. Fortunately it was dead by the time we came across it, having been shot by the only woman in the local hunt, and its 100kg body easily filled the boot of the X5. We saw various birds of prey, loads of spiders and had a few mice in our house which managed to ...

We headed down to Emma's place in the northern Dordogne, an old granite cottage that was refurbished while we were in Cayman, and is situated right next to her sisters', Sarah and Tracey, place. The refurbished house looked fantastic, with beautiful restored wooden floors, a cast iron claw footed bath, beams a plenty (to knock your head on), a kitchen handmade by Tracey and two beautiful fireplaces. We were very grateful to the sisters for their hard work as we settled ...