Blogs from Bernay, Upper Normandy, France, Europe

Yesterday was the kind of day to make you forget about covid, the state of the world and all the horrid crazy stuff of real life. A gentle (i.e we got up late) start to the morning after a middle of the night bed collapse. (4 am I moved and the slats in the bed chose to withdraw themselves from their slots and woke me and Ash with the sounds of gunshots as I found myself closer to the floor than I really wanted to be! Ash heroically stepped in to mend it and we went back to sleep, a little more afraid of moving than we had been!) So later then planned we made our way across the huuuuge bridge to Ile de Re again to a near empty gorgeous sandy beach. We made carcassonne ... 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