This is the reason we came here

Well we have been dreaming about it for months and tonight we actually went and done it.

The sun was low in the sky but still warm on our faces, the trees were calmly rustling in the most gentle of breezes. The local church bells were ringing…… Soft music was gently filling the air and then the moment came we had been waiting for all these months. The cries of “dinners up” finally came from my lips.

The table was laid, the wine poured and we sat down to our first meal outside on our terrace. The salad was crisp and tasty the tomatoes were so sweet you could have eaten them alone. The smell of freshly baked baguette filled the air. We sat and savoured the moment, we both agreed this was the reason we came here.

You could not have got a more perfect moment, one we shall surely remember for a long time.

All packed up and nowhere to go

It was about 8pm on Monday night when we got a phone call from our son to say that Ryanair had cancelled his flight due to the French strikes. He was due to arrive the next day for a week. He was all packed and ready to go, the car park was booked, holiday booked from work.

We were all devastated; we tried to find another way to get him here. Train, boat, plane we tried the lot, they were either fully booked, too expensive or too impractical. The Ryanair reservation number was not being answered and the link they gave him to rebook his flights were not showing any flights available until Saturday, the day he was due to go home.

After a whole evening trying every which way we could, we admitted defeat. The next morning he managed to rebook for the end of April, he had to phone his work to see if he could return to work this week and have his holiday at a later date. You do not realise what an effect these strikes have on people, I suppose that is the idea but you do become a bit blasé when it does not directly affect you. Dennis has now got a mountain of food to eat before it goes to waste. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it.

Call Back Home

This is great !

You can call family and friends back home for FREE using SKYPE and your PC, you can even call normal telephones for an incredible price, and get a number so family can call you cheaply as well.

Learning the French Language

We were very glad to have undertaken the lessons we did in England, this seemed to give us a basic level of language. However you very soon realise that there is a lot more to learn.

We have enrolled in local classes that are government sponsored, we attend these twice a week. But we realise we still need to do more and are looking at the courses that are offered by Linkword Languages. They seem to use word association to build vocabulary.