Last weekend my very nice friend and her fiancee took me to Bayeux to see the Tapestry!! First stop the creperie for a chocolate crepe - brain food of course! As we are here to learn about Norman history etc (I think...) William the Conqueror is someone we are studying so this was almost an educational trip... until we started discussing who would play who if we were to make a hollywood movie of the Tapestry... (Jeremy Irons as William and Alan Rickman as...

That thought being sausage, chips and beans So on sunday we went for a 30km cycle... Up the canal to the seafront and back through the rural roads of Northern France where nothing and I mean NOTHING is open. Heading up the canal we headed past Pegasus Bridge, one of the major parts of the operation of the invasion of Normandy during WWII. There is a house there, the first to be liberated by the Allies which now serves as cafe/museum/shop... Packed with Amer...

Ok so this is a bit of catch up... The weekend just gone was the Journee de la patrimoine here in France. Now I have no idea what this really means in French but what it DOES mean is everything is freeee!!!! I got to visit two local museums and two touristy venues all for free! I first visited the Museum of Normandy... all about prehistoric people and lots of roman coins. As you can probably tell I did not find it too interesting... A bit like the time a...

NOT like the sun! Last sunday I went on a day trip with the family B. Mr and Mrs B, little B, eldest B and his fiancee kindly invited me to go looking for a suitable chateau for them to get married in... Yes, you did hear me right, a chateau... The problem was that it was boiling hot last sunday- I have no idea exactly how hot but I swear it felt like 40 degrees. I, in my miniscule teeny weeny 30kg suitcase did not pack ANY summer clothes. A cape and leopa...

So today was the final day of our two week intense language course and it could not have ended better/worse... As I think I may have earlier pointed out it has been HARD work and the attendees have been dropping like flies. Quite fitting therefore that for this final morning I had two classes all alone! Just me! No-one else! On my tod! Last night some of us went out - for dinner - which then turned into drinks... (the photo here is the start of the nig...