Blogs from Caen, Lower Normandy, France, Europe - page 5

I haven't decided which major city I'm closest to. Two out of three hosts I've stayed with have threatened to kidnap/stake my foot to the floor, so that I couldn't leave. I think that's a compliment. And while the third was less violent, he did invite me to come work the reception desk at the annual wine festival in Sitges Beach next year. One morning, Jayne asked if I wanted to toast up a muffin for breakfast, and I imagined cutting a blueberry muffin in half, and cramming it in the toaster. Which actually sounded good, so I agreed. Lo and behold, nary a blueberry in sight, but an English muffin!!! I was so delighted, the English merely call them muffins, because they are English already! Like how French fries are simply "frites" in France, and ... read more

Alors! Commen d'écrire Caen? Bon pour sur ce n est pas notre coup de coeur puisque cette ville qui fut autrefois tres belle, fut détruite durant la guerre et qui est donc assez moderne mis à part quelque batiments. on est tout de meme allez boire un coup avec le couple( Benjamin/ Marie) super sympa qui nous a hébergé. juno beach vallait le détour et ce fut un super pic nic. Mymixxxxxxxx Coucou, eih oui cest la partie alaquelle tout le monde a hate de lire, ma partie a moi!!! alors je vous, mesdames, messieurs, mais surtout mesdames je vous aimes!!! (mais pas plus que mymi) Caen etait plutot moche, tout etait fermer le lundi maudit francais lache qui naiment pas traivaller he he. Les Abaye n'etait pas mal, mais quand nous sommes allés a coursuelles ... read more

The following morning I meet, Chris an American eating breakfast. He’s had a really rough time since arriving in Paris. He fronted up to Bastille Hotel on Saturday night at 23:30 and presented his room booking to reception. They tell him that they don’t have a bed for him, that he’d cancelled his booking. Chris tells them that he’d cancelled a booking for the 31st of May not the 24th. Sorry we have no rooms available comes the reply. Chris goes looking for other hotels in the area but they are all booked. Thinks he’s going to be sleeping in the park when a helpful hotel owner does an exhaustive ring around for him. He finally finds a place that ‘may/ have a room. He gets in a taxi and pays 20 Euro to go across ... read more

Early start today to make sandwiches etc for our 22hr ferry trip!!! The day started exceptionally well as we started off with croissants and jam - Mmmmmm!!!! We left in glorious sunshine which was the order of the day until nightfall! We sailed in and out of the islands stopping at Korcula, Hvar and Split. This was an a lovely lazy day taking in the scenery and wandering around the ferry! The only time the ferry got a little bit busy was when it stopped at Hvar, then these passengers disembarked at Split leaving literally a whole ferry to a handful of passengers!! We were very pleased we had taken a feast on board, as there was little food to be had, except in the expensive restaraunt!!! We guarded our foodstores well!!! The crossing upto Rijeka ... read more

Another update and hopefully it is not to far from the other one I posted otherwise I'm not up to date again. Well from the Mediteranean we went to a city called Toulouse which is not to far from the Spanish border so they have a big influence in this city. I wont be writing heaps on each place that we have gone to just the main things we did in the city, well in this place there is the longest complete Romanesque structure in the world so looked around there for awhile. We found out that your not allowed to sit on the grass (a police man was blowing his whistle and yelling in French at us saying something) what is with that I have no idea! In the city centre as with most of ... read more