Just returned from a fantastic week away in the Charente area. We stayed in a town called, wait for this…..Herpes!! Very unfortunate name, but a sweet small village with nothing in it bar a ‘fontaine d’Herpes’ (which was basically an old well) and the cutest donkeys ever, even white ones which I’d never seen before. There was, however, a stunning chateau in the next village which Ruby was convinced Sleeping Beauty lives in, so we enjoyed walking around that. It was a great week of girly giggles, beaucoup de champagne, sloe gin, and pineau (the local drink), daily visits from the friendly ghost in the big farmhouse, lots of jigging to Justin Timberlake, gruelling Table Tennis & Boule competitions, and of course the infamous Shark Bingo games which Ruby is the all time champion. We were a bit disappointed not being able to use the stunning pool and patio area, although us girls made our own ‘sunroom’ of sorts to get a bit of a tan.
So, apart from Herpes, we visited La Rochelle and Cognac, both quaint places in their own ways. We look forward to our next trip to the Loire Valley in May when we visit our (rented) vineyard in the village of Sancerre. Well, it’s actually only a row of vines, but we get to buy 4 cases of Sancerre at a very discounted rate, hopefully they’ll last us through the summer!
Struggling through this 2nd week of half term. Keeping the kids busy in the rain when I’m detoxing isn’t much fun, I feel like I’m shouting at them constantly. Mostly it’s when we’re out in public and I’m with them on my own in all the ‘danger zones’ whilst they’re still in fairy la la land. Keeping them safe is hard work. Also, the weather’s very unpredictable so we’ve been caught in it a few times. As the few friends we have here have jetted off to South Africa, or Austria, or Courcheval, we only have the memories of Herpes to get us through til school starts next week (and there were more than enough laughs to do that – berets, moustaches, and naked bottoms behind French aprons, that’s all I’m going to say!)
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