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: Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 06:21 am (UTC)