Monday, August 15, 2005
A neglected blog!
Yet again it’s been ages since I wrote – no valid excuse, so I won’t bore you with pathetic little ones!! So what have I been up to?
Well, my email problems got sorted: it was just G’s firewall on his laptop being over protective! Was glad about this as I was getting panicky about losing everyone’s addresses!!
Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the 7th time – and now will retire. Hopefully that will give someone else a chance to take the limelight! He actually only won 1 stage over the 2 weeks, but how anyone manages to cycle nearly 200km every day, up vicious hills, with only a couple of rest days is beyond me!
G and I have been checking out some cycling and walking routes for next year, which has given us something to do. We drive the cycle routes and cycle the walking routes, as it’s quicker, but one day we had enough time and actually managed to walk the walking route. Our boss had been out and done it a few weeks earlier, but we needed to check her notes and her pedometer readings, which she was sure were inaccurate – and indeed they were… her estimate of 20km turned out to only be 13km!
We continue to play lots of scrabble – I scored over 300 points on one evening…. Sad that I have to mention this!!
We have been quite busy with guests too, and this also means lots of bike cleaning, eg the other day G cleaned 3 in the morning and then I cleaned 8 that same afternoon!!
G’s dad (Tim) came to visit us 6-13th. He came out and helped move bags between hotels, and then on alternate days we tried to find more interesting things to do!! One day we went to Le Mans – I agreed and encouraged this as G is quite a racing fan, but wasn't really expecting to enjoy it myself, so we drove for 2 hours (longer than we thought!) and had a wander through the town – the old part is lovely, with medieval walls and buildings which are really lovely to just wander around. We found a restaurant called 1930’s and had a delicious lunch – that was a real good find! We then had a wander round the cathedral which was pretty impressive, before heading south of the town to the museum. On the way you can actually drive part of the circuit, as they use public roads…. I managed to get quite a good photo of us just as we were going round one of the few bends that looks like a proper race track bend (Indiannapolis, I think!) So a surprisingly good day out!
We spent some time in St Aignan on another day – one of the towns where guests stay, that we’ve not really explored yet. G and his dad also tested one of the other walking routes on one day, and on another we visited this quaint little chateau which the present owner bought in 1981 and has been attempting to restore, but seems to have started various different projects and not completed any of them!!
The drought is getting so bad that at last hose pipe bans have come into effect, as has stopping the use of car washes. Farmers are still watering away – can’t blame them though! We did have a spot of rain the other morning, but the sun soon came out again…
This weekend is St Mary’s / Ascension festival, and it’s the main weekend for the French to take holiday. G and I went to visit a chateau yesterday which has the “Earth from the sky” photographic exhibition (www.yannarthusbertrand.org) , which does have some amazing photos. And on today, as we had a real quiet day, we took to our bikes and cycled a round trip of over 60km to Montresor and back – one of the prettiest towns in france.
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Yet again it’s been ages since I wrote – no valid excuse, so I won’t bore you with pathetic little ones!! So what have I been up to?
Well, my email problems got sorted: it was just G’s firewall on his laptop being over protective! Was glad about this as I was getting panicky about losing everyone’s addresses!!
Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the 7th time – and now will retire. Hopefully that will give someone else a chance to take the limelight! He actually only won 1 stage over the 2 weeks, but how anyone manages to cycle nearly 200km every day, up vicious hills, with only a couple of rest days is beyond me!
G and I have been checking out some cycling and walking routes for next year, which has given us something to do. We drive the cycle routes and cycle the walking routes, as it’s quicker, but one day we had enough time and actually managed to walk the walking route. Our boss had been out and done it a few weeks earlier, but we needed to check her notes and her pedometer readings, which she was sure were inaccurate – and indeed they were… her estimate of 20km turned out to only be 13km!
We continue to play lots of scrabble – I scored over 300 points on one evening…. Sad that I have to mention this!!
We have been quite busy with guests too, and this also means lots of bike cleaning, eg the other day G cleaned 3 in the morning and then I cleaned 8 that same afternoon!!
G’s dad (Tim) came to visit us 6-13th. He came out and helped move bags between hotels, and then on alternate days we tried to find more interesting things to do!! One day we went to Le Mans – I agreed and encouraged this as G is quite a racing fan, but wasn't really expecting to enjoy it myself, so we drove for 2 hours (longer than we thought!) and had a wander through the town – the old part is lovely, with medieval walls and buildings which are really lovely to just wander around. We found a restaurant called 1930’s and had a delicious lunch – that was a real good find! We then had a wander round the cathedral which was pretty impressive, before heading south of the town to the museum. On the way you can actually drive part of the circuit, as they use public roads…. I managed to get quite a good photo of us just as we were going round one of the few bends that looks like a proper race track bend (Indiannapolis, I think!) So a surprisingly good day out!
We spent some time in St Aignan on another day – one of the towns where guests stay, that we’ve not really explored yet. G and his dad also tested one of the other walking routes on one day, and on another we visited this quaint little chateau which the present owner bought in 1981 and has been attempting to restore, but seems to have started various different projects and not completed any of them!!
The drought is getting so bad that at last hose pipe bans have come into effect, as has stopping the use of car washes. Farmers are still watering away – can’t blame them though! We did have a spot of rain the other morning, but the sun soon came out again…
This weekend is St Mary’s / Ascension festival, and it’s the main weekend for the French to take holiday. G and I went to visit a chateau yesterday which has the “Earth from the sky” photographic exhibition (www.yannarthusbertrand.org) , which does have some amazing photos. And on today, as we had a real quiet day, we took to our bikes and cycled a round trip of over 60km to Montresor and back – one of the prettiest towns in france.
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