Holiday a week in

Posted on August 8, 2008

After the rainy 24 hours it was a welcome relief to see the sun shining today. We made up for it by having an afternoon around the pool recovering from last nights excursions when we met up at the bar with Lisa, Charlotte, Tom and Claire plus a huge Irish contingent and had a really good laugh and consumed a little too much. Heidi’s sudden thirst for red wine at 43 is as unexpected as it is amusing, she used to be such a tea total. I fear for ...

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That’s The Trouble With The Atlantic Coast………

Posted on August 7, 2008

Today has been overcast and periodically damp, the problem with the west coast of France is that it can still be exposed to wet weather steaming in from the Atlantic, and last night must have seen 2-3 inches of rain.Undeterred me and the boys set of for an afternoon body boarding, but as we jumped in to the sea we were greeted with a blast from a siren and a guy waving his hands frantically at us to get out of the sea. When we got out the life ...

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Biarritz day 5

Posted on August 6, 2008

The last twenty four hours has once again been all action, we went surfing yesterday afternoon which was great fun then I decided to get all the washing done and out to dry. I worked like a Dickensian maid to get all the clothes washed and outside on to the clothes horse only for it to start raining when we were at the bar. Not only that, the bloody dryer collapsed in the mud rendering all my hard work useless! Bollocks to trying to be a modern ...

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Holiday Day 4

Posted on August 5, 2008

Day four of our trip was a kind of groundhog day version of day three so not to much to report on really except that I went for a really long run on the beach, and I think I may have damaged ligaments on my right ankle. Tomorrow will tell the extent of the damage which hopefully does not have an effect on surfing and swimming etc.We also had some obligatory petty sibling squabbles between George and Harry, but not nearly as petty as the one ...

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Biarritz Day 3

Posted on August 5, 2008

Day three of our trip has been all action, I woke really early and left the boys in bed sleeping while I went for a long run, as they did not go to bed until late last night. We went to the camp site bar which was actually quite good fun, though I am thinking of getting a t shirt with “Yes I am on holiday alone with my children” written on it.John actually thinks it is quite amusing see the curious looks we get when going out together as two ...

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