Wednesday, 28 July 2010

some other things that have happened.

The alternator went and we stopped moving on day 4. A kind mechanic lighten my wallet of 330 euros to help out....sweet.

Paris could do without the pompidou center. It looks like a toilet and on 3 of its four sides it is used as one.

If you want a mini Eiffel tower there is a guy selling them in Paris. He has a man working for him every 10 feet or so.

You can't learn French in 3 weeks.

Disneyland is a great place to practise queueing.

Don't think of coming here without a satnav (they write in French also)

I have discovered the 10 movies that I downloaded to watch are all password protected.

There seems a conspicuous absence of birds in France.....do they eat them? But they do have these bugs that light up at night.

The internet I am using is slower than dial up ..... yay

Bonjour

It's been over 2 weeks since we left London and this is the first time we've had internet access - so much for maintaining the blog!
We are eating way too many baguettes, croissants, cheese and dried sausage, drinking too much wine and generally having a brilliant time.
From rambling in Kent to climbing the Eiffel Tower, 2 days at Disneyland and lots of sun, sea and surf. We are currently at Omaha Beach in Normandy due to Tylers interest in WW2.
Very interesting, moving and also a beautiful beach. We are planning to head South along the coast tomorrow to La Rochelle and then on to Bordeaux and hopefully Spain over the next few weeks.

Saturday, 10 July 2010

Heading off

Off today. Spent the last week moving all the stuff from the house into the camper to make sure its good and full.

Ms Snuffles came in to check it out......here she is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WlsdOJrir0....Tyler is going to miss her a lot.

We are staying at a farm site http://www.coldblow-camping.co.uk/ for the next 2 nights to over to France.
4 years in London never knew they had farms outside it.....I thought it was just houses as far as the eye can see and then the north somewhere up there.