Saturday in summary: Croissants: ½ ; Cheeses: 2 ; Chocolates: 2; Castles:0; Churches: 0; Rain: ½ (but fortunately not until after our hike); Patchwork Stores: 0; Kilometres walked:10+; Translation Faux Pas: 0; Strawberries: beaucoup Sunday in summary: Croissants: 1 ; Cheeses: 2 ; Chocolates: 0; Castles:1; Churches: 1; Rain:0 (but threatening); Patchwork Stores: 0; Kilometres […]
What a difference an F makes…
Today in summary: Croissants:0; Cheeses: 1 (chevre); Chocolates: 2; Castles:2; Churches: 0; Rain:0; Patchwork Stores: 0; Kilometres walked:5+ (but mostly uphill – why didn’t they build castles on the flat?); Translation Faux Pas: 0 (but still recovering from yesterday) When we visited la boucherie yesterday, I thought we were buying goose sausages (‘oie’ in French) […]
My Grand Faux Pas
Today in summary: Croissants:1; Cheeses: 2 (chevre & vache), Castles:1; Churches: 0; Rain:0; Patchwork Stores: 0 (must be losing my touch); Kilometres walked:15+; Translation Faux Pas: 1 (but a big one) Well, I have officially failed translation duty. One trip to la boucherie this morning to buy some cold cuts for our pique-nique and we […]
A castle (or two?) a day…
Our excursion yesterday to the Quillan market was a little disappointing although we did locate a laundromat (there’s no dryer at the house and David, the laundry king, is not partial to clotheslines) and I stumbled across my second patchwork store in as many days. Since we were already on the northern side of the […]
Bonjour!
We arrived in France on May Day and, within 24 hours, I had already found my first patchwork store. I wasn’t even looking for it – honestly! After dropping our house exchange hosts off at the train station in Carcassonne, David and I made an expedition to to a large supermarket in a quest for […]
Where in the world…
Only one more sleep until we set off on our home exchange adventure to England and France. Shame about the long haul plane journey to get there. As a child, when we used to go a family holidays (to much more modest destinations), we would often play “I’m an Ant” to pass the time. The […]