Tuesday 26th October: I just posted that we are leaving for England on Friday, well I've just found out that soon we will be leaving to go to South Africa on November 6th! Now that is even better than cold old England! Tyler, I am so looking forward to sharing the pictures with you of the animals we'll see over there, can you believe it I'm going to see real live elephants and lions and crocodiles (although I'm not so excited about the crocodiles!). We will be staying in a nature reserve for 4 days called Kruger National Park. Look it up on the map, it's huge, one of the largest game reserves in Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruger_National_Park The park has lots of trees called the 'baobab tree', these trees live for hundreds of years and are so ... read more

Monday 25th October: Today we went out for a walk around Saint Germain, it's a really nice old town with lots of shops and things to see. Our first stop was in front of the chateau in Saint Germain, it's not the most beautiful chateau in France but it's quite impressive. No-one lives here any longer but it is now a Museum which is a place with lots of old objects in it. We then went into the park next to the chateau and I saw the place where Louis XIV was born, he was one of the French kings, they used to live in Saint Germain before they built an immense palace in nearby Versailles. The park next to the chateau is really big and has a huge terrace which goes all the way to ... read more

Saturday October 23rd: We left for Normandy on Saturday morning all 5 of us, that is Alison, Ludovic, the cat, the rabbit and me! Today is the start of school holidays in France and French children are off now for the week. The weather was lovely and sunny but still quite cold. The drive out to Normandy was fun. We took the A13 motorway heading west and then did the rest of the journey on the country roads until we arrived in the village in Normandy called Saint Pierre du Mesnil which is near to a town called Bernay. The village is very small with no more than 100 inhabitants and the houses are also quite small with lots of wooden beams, some houses have straw on the roof (thatch). The village is so small though ... read more