To France!
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tamaranthEnjoyable day (mostly) yesterday. My friend R (who I've known for longer than anyone else I'm in touch with) decided to have a party for her 50th. On a beach. In France. You can see why we are friends.
Survived rushrushrush to Sussex on Friday; late-night cheese and wine; 5:30am start; travelling with 29 adults and 20 children (all pretty quiet on the way there, and Boots travel-sickness pills coped with 3 hours in a coach, too). Got to beach at Wissant with belated discovery that no one had checked the tides (had brief geek-moment with tide-table app on PDA) but luckily it was going out. Strong winds, lots of sand, evil tide/current: but we splashed about merrily, dodging wind- and kite-surfers -- children towed by various adults -- and it was wonderfully invigorating to be knocked over by waves.
Sandy picnic on beach: walk along beach; retreat to warm cafe (where the radio was playing 'To France' as we went in!) for waffles and beer and discussion of cultural differences evidenced in the ice-cream menu (mint-flavoured ice lollies; the green-tinged Cornetto was pistachio). Then up the hill to Chez Nicole, who have a two-item menu -- moules frites or jambon et frites -- and a two-item dessert menu -- ice cream (Cornetto) or tarte au pommes. Moules utterly delicious: I think M and I ended up finishing off several bowls whose original owners were exhausted by the sheer effort of it all.
The journey back quite horrid (French bureaucracy; tired children; video with distorted music track; sand emerging from ears; iPod battery packing in, quelle surprise), but we were ever so restrained, considering.
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ladymoonray's company and conversation: shame the pleurisy stopped you swimming, darling, but it did give us a reason to escape from time to time!
Am now fitting Weekend Stuff into one day. Rushrushrush. But have had Fun, oh yes.
Some pictures (sadly, my camera had turned into a sand dune by the time we'd left the beach):
Survived rushrushrush to Sussex on Friday; late-night cheese and wine; 5:30am start; travelling with 29 adults and 20 children (all pretty quiet on the way there, and Boots travel-sickness pills coped with 3 hours in a coach, too). Got to beach at Wissant with belated discovery that no one had checked the tides (had brief geek-moment with tide-table app on PDA) but luckily it was going out. Strong winds, lots of sand, evil tide/current: but we splashed about merrily, dodging wind- and kite-surfers -- children towed by various adults -- and it was wonderfully invigorating to be knocked over by waves.
Sandy picnic on beach: walk along beach; retreat to warm cafe (where the radio was playing 'To France' as we went in!) for waffles and beer and discussion of cultural differences evidenced in the ice-cream menu (mint-flavoured ice lollies; the green-tinged Cornetto was pistachio). Then up the hill to Chez Nicole, who have a two-item menu -- moules frites or jambon et frites -- and a two-item dessert menu -- ice cream (Cornetto) or tarte au pommes. Moules utterly delicious: I think M and I ended up finishing off several bowls whose original owners were exhausted by the sheer effort of it all.
The journey back quite horrid (French bureaucracy; tired children; video with distorted music track; sand emerging from ears; iPod battery packing in, quelle surprise), but we were ever so restrained, considering.
This would have been ever so much less fun without
ladymoonray's company and conversation: shame the pleurisy stopped you swimming, darling, but it did give us a reason to escape from time to time!Am now fitting Weekend Stuff into one day. Rushrushrush. But have had Fun, oh yes.
Some pictures (sadly, my camera had turned into a sand dune by the time we'd left the beach):
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Date: Sunday, June 5th, 2005 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, June 5th, 2005 03:42 pm (UTC)Actually, it looked very good indeed!
(Do you have that photo of me and M splashing in the surf? No rush, but I'd like to send M a copy.)
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Date: Sunday, June 5th, 2005 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, June 5th, 2005 03:45 pm (UTC)I'll send you t'other photo when I've uploaded it (it was on my camera rather than phone). Fingers crossed, it should work, but the camera is still in the car. Maybe later tonight :)
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Date: Sunday, June 5th, 2005 05:12 pm (UTC)L-O done! Yay!
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Date: Sunday, June 5th, 2005 05:25 pm (UTC)Will you keep those discards a little bit separate, so I don't have to go back over what I've already looked at?
*hugs* to you, you're doing great.
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