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| Brisbane girls en France |
The France part on the trip involves visitors and meals and relaxing. Can't believe that we've had 7 (soon to be 9) houseguests from Australia. People come and go, and the car tootles to the tiny airstrip or the railway station on a regular basis. The house is plenty big, and the pool is providing exercise options. Not too many people taking up the mountain bike opportunity; but plenty of takers for wine tasting.
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| Dordogne winding |
We've had mixed weather and some days revolve around going to the daily market, eating and working on a massive jigsaw. Other days we have taken trips to the amazing grottoes and Cro-Magnon cave paintings of the Lascaux region, and the pretty medieval Bastide towns that are peculiar to this region. Aquitaine was given as dowry when Eleanor married the King of England. There followed several centuries of the French trying to get it back, hence all the fortified towns.
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| Lazy afternoons |
It's been great to have my family here as well; the "Ozzie block" have been and gone, and we're in the "UK block" now. Tom has joined us as well, and tonight we are having a 60th birthday dinner in a local hotel for 11! The younger UK cousins will leave us after their long weekend. We've got 4 days remaining with my sister and husband before they go, and then Ian's sister and husband arrive from the USA. Lovely reunions. I feel blessed.
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