We awoke to yet another rainy day but we were hopeful that with travelling South East to Rocamadour the weather would improve. Having said our goodbyes to Jean Marc, Quitterie, Marie, Berthille, Adrienne and of course Nuk (their beautiful dog) and with promises to see Marie in a month in NZ and hopefully Jean Marc and Quitterie within the year, we were off. We decided to take the quickest way to Rocamadour by the autoroute so Jonny could enjoy driving at 130km/...

Just 90 minutes from les Eppesses and we arrived in La Rochelle to stay with Marie's family, the Simons. It is so true what everyone has said so far, La Rochelle really is the most beautiful town. We are so fortunate to be staying with Jean Marc and Quitterie and their family as they have been the perfect hosts and have really spoilt us with showing us around and feeding us fantastic food, Sophie has discovered she likes Foie Gras but not that fussed on Champagne...

Hi Brodie here a few days ago we went to Puy du Fou. When we got there I we went to see a show about horses and knights and when castles were attacked. It had lots of sound effects and fire. Then we went to a show with musketeers in a theatre where they swung down from the sides of the theatre onto the stage. Then we went to go see the Vikings there was fire,water,boats and sound effects. Then we went to a colloseum to see lions horse races gladiators and Seaser....

Yesterday we woke up and drove 2 hours to a medieval Disneyland called Puy du Fu, it was so fun we watched lots of different shows my favourite was probably the Roman colasium one where they had real lions pretending to eat the people or the horse show. After that we drove an hour and a half to La Rochelle were we met our French exchange student Marie, we went to the market and bought things for lunch and then we went back to there house for lunch. Then after lu...

Last night there was an incredible thunder storm but we were all way too tired to get up to see it and with all the wooden shutters closed it meant we slept through most of it. Unfortunately, we woke to rain and it is our one day we really needed sunshine. With a 90 minute drive to Puy du Fou we were still hopeful the rain would pass but unfortunately not. Puy du Fou is a bit like a medieval Disneyland, much of it outdoors with performances of actors and animals...