Greetings from Peter and Holly! A little update on the activities of your Anglo-American friends in Brittany… First of all, and most important, I hope you, your family and friends are staying safe and healthy amidst all the chaos the Continue reading
It seems the Smith contingent were not supposed to be at the family gathering this weekend. I didn’t mention in the story about the Flybe fiasco that my sister and brother-in-law were coming over from the Isle of Wight to Continue reading
Sam had her adventures last week; today it was the turn of Grampy and me. Having spent the morning busting my chops to finish ripping up the floorboards in the cellar and slosh on the nasty poison to keep the Continue reading
Sam’s continuing saga, in her own words: On Saturday monday, (Friday night east coast time), I left at 4:30 am from France to fly to Paris, then Paris to Chicago. Half hour too late to catch a flight to Syracuse. Continue reading
3 days to get to Amsterdam, via SLC, Chicago, Boston and London, of course having to pay for another flight to Amsterdam, now not quite so “budget”! Continue reading
Took Holly and Sophie to the airport a couple of days ago, as Sophie starts back to school next week. Up at 3:30 AM, on the road at 4:30 to make it to Charles de Gaulle Airport by 9:30. Drop Continue reading
now when people mention the famous Paris-Brest race, I can brag that I have a course-side grandstand spot, and have watched it every year for two decades… oh, I do feel chuffed! Continue reading
Well, Marcel did laugh his toosh off… once he’d got over the shock. So yesterday was the day to cut and paste a 10 foot long, 8 foot high pile of concrete blocks. We’d been having a conversation just the Continue reading
So today, we decided that the lovely wall Marcel built for us when we were both sick in bed with the worst cold yesterday… needs to be moved 70 cm (28 inches) so that you can actually walk around the Continue reading