Sunday, 1 August 2010

France for the holidays


Thursday 22 July - Ian and I were hoping for some sunny summer weather when we left chilly, cloudy Bristol and flew to La Rochelle France, and we were not disappointed. We had a one hour delay at the airport (I guess all they say about easy jet is true) and then had a mad dash taxi ride from the airport to the train station where we only made our train because two people let us cut in the ticket line and the train was delayed by 5 minutes. We enjoyed a very pleasant ride, as French trains are far superior to British ones and because of the beautiful day and lovely landscapes passing by, to Nantes. Ian's dad picked us up a drove us to La Baule where we finally got to see his parent's recently acquired French house. We had a nice visit with Ian's sister and niece and a lovely dinner with Ian's parents before being dropped off at the studio where we had lived together for 3 months previously. The next day we visited the market on La Jarrige (the road where the studio is located, with its many sausage stalls. I found and bought a beautiful french market basket which was a little awkward to bring home on the plane but totally worth it.

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