I shall warn you now this looks like it could be another long one so I apologise in advance, although I'm sure you're all actually loving my super long posts and can't wait for this next one....or not, but I'd better get on with it anyway.
So I've been here almost a week now - and I don't think it's going too badly.
Wednesday turned out to be my first day off, which is luckily cause I forgot to turn my alarm on to wake me up early anyway! At this project I work four full days a week and get three days off.
In the morning I walked down to the village on my own. It wasn't too difficult to find my way down and the path goes through a lovey little woodland area before winding between some gorgeous houses. When good old Queen Vic came to visit the area the English style of houses came across with her. The Parisians who visit the area decided the liked the design and built all their local summer houses in that style, so now there are all these old Anglo-Norman houses scattered around the area. Some have thatched roofs, some look more like mini fairy tale castles with their towers and turrets, however most are creamy white with dark wooden panels and steep sloping roofs. Now normally I'm not a big architecture nut but the way things are going you may all have to prepare for my immenant ramblings about the lovely buildings.
Anyway I wandered around the village all morning trying not to get too lost then went and bought a few things from the market before heading back up the road. I would have stuck around longer but there was a heavy storm forecast and I didn't want to get stuck in it, especially because the walk back up the road is so steep (the joys of being on the clifftop) and the path through the woods was slippery enough as it was.
After a nice light lunch - salad - I spent the afternoon getting some work done around the apartment, including laundry. The upside of only having a few changes of clothes for on the road is that you have less to carry; unfortunately it means more laundry days, made more annoying by the fact that as I wash so few items at a time, hand washing is the only real option.
Once I'd finished the housework I made a simple dinner - pesto pasta with pine nuts and Parmesan (yay for alliteration) - then spent the rest of my evening working on my French.
Thursday was spent entirely in the garden. I got a lot of weeding done in the herb garden and fruit plot trying to get rid of all the bindweed and the extra mint. I also pruned the currant bushes before netting them against the birds and sprayed the roses against Mildew. It might not sound like it but those jobs took all day to get done and by the end of the day I was too tired to do much other than start working out my next project.
Yesterday I spent some more time working on the French Locations' facebook then cleaned out and tidied Anne's potting shed.
After lunch her and I went out to Pont-l'Eveque, a larger town a few miles inland. Here the buildings have a similar look but are a lot older- some date back to nearer the middle ages! Once we'd picked up a few things, including waterproof spray for my ex-waterproof jacket, we drove across to Dives-sur-mer to have a look around *insert building comment here*. Interestingly, on the outside of the church here people had carved pictures of their ships in the hope that their journeys would be blessed. We picked a few other things there before heading home again.
I made myself a quick pasta with tomato sauce dinner before going back out. I had read that Witch Doctor was playing in the village for free so off I went to see them. Unfortunately I had actually misread the poster and actually weren't playing until today...oops. So after a bit of aimless wandering I traipsed back up the hill. On the way back though I turned onto a smaller path to the cliff and watched the sun set over the ocean on the longest day of the year and as I sat there a small red deer bounded silently across the field into the nearby trees.
On that note I'll round up and give you some pretty pictures
See you next time!
One of the lovely buildings I've been going on about
A nice, old local couple
An example of the ships carved on the church wall
The summer solstice sunset
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