Another week, another guest bloggist!

Another retrospective, long distance blog! LCA at the keyboard. Well how can you add to the blog, whilst staying with D&M, when suffering from ' 2B2B ' syndrome? (That's 'too busy to blog'.)

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And now back home, having had about 5 hrs sleep after a lovely evening with D&M's friends, I'm nearly too tired to blog. So, I'll go for a very brief resume of the last 4 packed days:
- problem free travel until the autoroute, when I managed to 'natter' so much that we missed the exit, causing a rather longer journey back to La Tranche

- beautiful sunny weather throughout

- trips to Les Sables & La Roche for Martine's English classes. At the latter, I was part of the lesson, when the students asked me questions. 2 lovely groups of students
- Dave & I took a walk around La Chaume - fishing boats, boulistes, the mural and wisteria in the gardens - cycling to various places; getting the bread; La Paillote to see Matt hard at work preparing for the season; into town; to the jetty; (quicker than walking & I can cope 'cos it's flat & there are cycle paths to keep me away from the traffic - or is it to keep the traffic safe from me?)

- meeting Martine & Dave's friends
- watching a recent French comedy film, which I more or less understood, tho' I didn't get all the local slang! - delicious meals 'at home' , including a BBQ

- delicious meals 'au restuarant' (merci Matt for 1 of these)

- delicious meal at friends (merci Sue & Nick)

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Seems to be rather an emphasis on the food, but it was good! Thanks for a brill visit. Good luck to Matt (& Martine) for the opening of La Paillote on Thursday.