Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening ladies Well here we are in Calais where we are staying for tonight before catching the train back to UK.  That leaves calais tomorrow morning at 11:50 & we get into Folkestone at 11:20 - good isn't it! I was so sad to be leaving our lovely gite this morning, but we have already booked it again for next year.  We are also going to look at taking the ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo next year - will save Bob quite a lot of driving & he will get to relax on the ferry. So this time tomorrow or near enough we will be back home.  Two weeks of post to sort through.  Fortunately only a small amount of washing as we were able to keep on top of that at the gite. I think I have a workshop on Tuesday morning but won't know until I ring on Monday sometime. Then I have to update the club pages with July to August progamme which I forgot to do before coming on holiday. I should be able to manage all that as I have to say this is probably the most relax...

Hi everyone I have had to date these blogs as I cannot remember the number of days.  The mind has completely closed down on that aspect.  So much so in fact that I answered an email just now where someone asked me where in France I was - I couldn't remember Brittany & sat there for quite a fe minutes before it came to me. Well! what have we been up to sine I last wrote - well on Tuesday we visited the rather large sea life centre in Brest.  It was rather expensive but we decided to go in anyway - after all we had just had an 1.5 hour drive.  It was worth it & it really was laid out well & the exhibitions were brilliant.  I took loads of pictures - 85 in fact although when I came to look at them some weren't any use because I just got reflection through glass - but I still had just on 60 after those were deleted.  We were there for about 4 hours & all that walking on a hard surface took its toll on Bob's bad knee so on Wednesday (yesterday...

See - I have now lost count of how many days. I think I last blogged on Friday - the quickest item to blog is that yesterday being Sunday we did nothing - except make & eat breakfast & an evening meal.  Bob watched the mens singles final & I watched most of it after I had updated my holiday diary & the photos that I had taken on Friday & Saturday. On Saturday we found a very nice lake area to visit & nearly took a 3-hour boat ride inc luunch but it was a bit pricey so we didn't.  So continued our journey of discovering lovely villages. Ooh nearly forgot - visited a rather nice Abbey that was being rebuilt & in the shop I bought ..............  stamps.  Will tell you about it in the next blogging session as we are a bit short of time today. Fortunately I was able to check my email today & found one from Fiona of Mold club letting me know I had won a prize in an ATC challenge.  So I had to search for the site & clai...

Hello everyone Now two days to tell you about although today (day 9) is not finished yet - but will take opportunity of being able to get on internet. Yesterday we went to a town called Dinan which has a historic old town & walled city. The houses were timbered & the lanes all cobble stones which was fun to walk on.  We took a circular walk - well most of it - part of it went down a rather steep lane which took some watching - couldn't use the cam corder whilst walking - had to stop & film.  We ended up on a panoramic point above the river which was quite something. After a little more walking we found a good restaurant where we sat & watched the world go by until they opened for food. Today we have been to Carnac which is where there are a lot of  megalithic stones.  Wow - so many - runs to 2394 (or so) - very impressive.  In order to see everything we took Le Petit Train for a 50 minutes tour. All of that & the sun as we...

Hi everyone Well! here we are at McDonalds again.  How are you all - I hope you are getting the lovely sunny weather that we are. Now where did I get to? Hmm reading back - not very far.  I don't seem to have said that we spent Sunday doing absolutely nothing, very restful. When I last blogged I think we were just on our way out - so haven't said anything about that day.  We went to a rather nice small town called Lannion - lots of hills though - but some3 really beautiful buildings. Then we took a really nice scenic tour around the coast line.  Some great panoramic views from the cliff tops. Then back to this town where McDonalds is to find our evening meal.  On Tuesday we visited the village of Pont-Aven which is where Paul Gaugin started his school of painting in 1888.  A really beautiful village with a river flowing through - very picturesque. So lots of photos to take.  It was very busy as it is fairly commercial & of course...

Hi Ladies Whoo! we found a Mcdonalds. I am so pleased as it gives me the opportunity to properly say "Thank You" very much for all the birthday cards - they were absolutely gorgeous - just blew me away.  They are displayed all around the lounge area of the gite.  Talking of the gite - it is just heavenly - way out in the country - just the birds to disturb the quiet. Yesterday was really hot - reached 92 degrees (old money) & we did absoloutely nothing.  Well except to make our breakfast then later our dinner. But Saturday - our journey to the gite was very good & took less time than Google maps or Bobs satnav said.  The roads are so good here.  We arrived in our gite about 4:00pm, had a couple of hours quiet then went out for my birthday meal.  The couple who own the gite had booked us into a local restaurant. Now! it looks like these holiday writings will be rather full of superlatives - because the restaurant location was stunning & ...

Good morning everyone! It is just 9:10 am here - which of course is 8:10 am with you. We have just had our breakfast & starting to sort ourselves out for the final part of this journey to start our holiday proper.  Google quotes about 4.5 hours - but we will of course be having a couple of stops - so a bit longer than that. As I am unsure about when I will next be able to talk to you I would like to thank everyone for their cards that I have brought with me - I have in fact not looked at them yet - as I decided I would prefer to look at them when we get to our gite & be able to find somewhere to display them for the length of the holiday.  I can't believe it - I have reached the grand old age of 70!  Or as Bob expressed it in his card - sixty-ten. Where did all those years go?  I am still only thirty something really.  I wish.  No I don't actually - I have enjoyed every stage of my aging process - reaching various age stages has neve...

Hi there again - it's me Right, we have now moved from Calais to Le Havre & arrived at our overnight hotel about 1:00pm, after a nice leisurely start to the morning. The motorways over here are so much better than at home - sad to say - & the journey was only just under 3 hours, but hardly any traffic.  Getting to Le Havre was not a problem, but actually finding the road that had the entrance to the hotel was a little more difficult.  Bob has sat nav in the car but since his lady was programmed some rights of way have been changed & a second exit off a roundabout was a one-way only in the opposite direction to which we wished to go.  Frustration set in as we could see the hotel but not how to reach it.  Obviously we did find the way in the end & it is also very close to a big shopping centre. So! after booking in & sorting ourselves out we strolled over to the shopping centre - well there was milk to buy again.  Ooh -...

Hi everyone Well we actually arrived at the hotel about 4:15 pm (That's 3:15 pm for you).  We had a good journey down from North Wales - encountering quite a bit of rain, but it is dry here - a little cloudy but reasonably sunny. We are staying just on the edge of Calais, then tomorrow we move on to Le Havre where will be staying on Friday night. Taking it easy for a couple of hours - we have tried to catch our emails but link is slow.  Yet I managed to get onto blogger - strange.  Keeping fingers crossed it doesn't fall apart when I am ready to upload this.  Bob has sorted the TV - so we are also keeping an eye on Wimbledon. We have decided to spend this evening at the hotel - having our evening meal here about 7:15.  We are not heading off too early tomorrow morning as Le Havre is only about 3 hours away.  But it will be nice to have the time to look around as I have not been there before. Well! I am not going to push my luck anymore ...