Brittany

Sometimes even little trips can be really awesome. I just spent three days in Bretagne in the north of France and it was a great holiday. It started off rather horribly with a five and a half hour train trip spent with Hanna, Alain's Polish wife. The only time she talked was to complain about people talking too loudly. They were talking at a normal level, but I felt obliged to nod and agree that they were ever so annoying. Luckily after this train trip, Alain picked us up from the station and we had the best crepes of my life... made up for the torturous trip.

We stayed in a cute little village house with a slate roof with Alain's lovely talkative sister. She was really nice... so nice that she inisted on giving me her old clothes.
'What do you think of this one?' she asks, holding up a hideous striped knitted jumper.
'Well, it's not really my thing,' I say.
'Yes it is! Try it on!'
I don the large floppy woolen thing and it really does not look good.
'Oh, that suits you so well! What do you think?'
'Um, I'm not sure...'
'I'm glad you like it! It's a present for you, have it!'
This is nice, but now my suitcase has a few extra ugly garments to weigh me down. Actually she also gave me two really nice bottles of wine cos I mentioned how I wanted to take some home for my Mum... yep, that's right Trish, french wine for you.

Things I did on the trip include seeing cute villages, overhearing conversations in Celtic, fishing in the English channel, going to a giant aquarium in Brest and spending a day in Jersey. Ever heard of Jersey cows? I saw lots of them. We took the boat to Jersey in the morning, and I totally wasn't seasick. We then hired a car and drove around. I had tea and scones in an English cafe. They all spoke English, it was so exciting! Understanding the conversations of passers-by was quite novel. They had amusing accents.




Eurotrip blog + photos coming soon!

Chronic lack of internet!

Hi everybody! I just got back from the Eurotour last night and am on the internet for the first time in two weeks. I'm gonna struggle to reply to everyone's emails and comments on Facebook etc because tomorrow I go away for another week to Bretange with Alain from my Rotary club. So I'm not going to try and write a Europe trip blog today cos It'll take a while... you guys can wait a week or two. Suffice to say that it was pretty fantastic...

Right now I'm chewing on a mintie sent to me by my fantastic family... I missed these delicious lollies. Seriously, they're good. Then you rip ûp the wrappers to make them loooong.

Will put up a real blog soon.