While Brian flew to Madrid, I drove with the kids to Trinite sur Mer, near Carnac (which is famous for its fields and fields of Neolithic standing stones). I lived in Brest for a year in the late 1980s and loved Brittany with its little sandy bays, rocky coastline and islands, and its Celtic heritage. [...]
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Bretagne
Posted in France on September 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Train to Paris
Posted in France on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here and there a village steeple. Statue of a crucified Christ at a crossroads. The crops shaved to grey stubble. Occasionally a brace of wind turbines, their blades turning and flashing like a child’s pinwheel. An alien symmetry of whirling donkey ears. The plains of northern France are flat and bare. The hay scratched into [...]
Brittany
Posted in France on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When Dad was in Madrid, Mum drove us to Brittany. When we were choosing a camping ground they were all 4 stars and we went around for ages choosing between two good ones near the beach. I liked them because there was free tennis, table tennis, volleyball, basket ball, soccer and also a heated swimming [...]
Bayeux
Posted in France on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have driven across France towards the Normandy coast. Huddled beneath huge pine trees in the Bayeux Municipal Campground. The wind and rain are fierce tonight, but we are sheltered by the trees (unless a branch comes down! Annie and the kids visited the Tapestry yesterday afternoon. We marketed it to them as the biggest [...]
Rouen
Posted in France on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After the recently cleaned Notre Dame de Paris, the facade of the cathedral at Rouen is almost black with centuries of dirt and smoke. It was much damaged in the Second World War, and although repaired it has an air of sombre history about it that NDdP does not with its herds of tourists. [...]
Paris (4)
Posted in France on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Where the policemen in Florence sport Guicci handbags, their Parisian cousins have taken to patrolling the streets on rollerblades…
- Brian
Paris (3)
Posted in France on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The last day of summer. The sun is weak and the sky a watery grey. Already the street sweeper is clearing leaves. All over Europe the locals have complained of this “worst summer”. The Guardian reports the fewest hours of sun on record for August. We walk the streets from Hotel de Ville to the [...]
Paris (2)
Posted in France on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting in the tent from the rain, beside the Seine in the Bois de Boulogne, and eating a baguette bought today with honey bought from a roadside stall in northern Croatia a few weeks ago (when the sun used to shine!), while I wait for Brian and the kids to come back from EuroDisney. [...]
EuroDisney
Posted in France on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have already been to Movieworld, DreamWorld and Wet’n’Wild on the gold Coast near Grandma’s, so were really excited to see how EuroDisney compared.
The five best rides were:
- 1. Space Mtn which was a really cool roller coaster with many cork screws, loops and drops.
- 2. My second favourite was the Buzz Light [...]
Paris (1)
Posted in France on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We had three days in Paris but one of them was EuroDisney. I have been collecting medallion souvenirs from churches and famous buildings. They cost 2E and look like Galleons from Harry Potter (ie Harry Potter dollars). I like them because they look like real gold. I have also bought one gold and one [...]
