Sept 6th_We leave Digion and go to Calais via St John de Losne to talk to the guys where the boat is going to be over winter. Another 6 hrs driving to overnight in Calais before catching the Euro-Tunnel and driving up to Norwich on Friday.
Lovely B & B and a good local pub next door in Neatistead.. (me, my brother Bill, and partner Pippa ).
More beautiful old buildings at Horning. ( think one might be a pub!!)
Spent Sat sight seeing locally around the area and the local Broads, watching the sailing club, and pleasure boats vying for space on a small area of water. Feels a bit like a Disney Movie!!!
Some how think these tenders have been there a while.
The Broads were originally old peat beds where they had cut the peat for fuel, and they eventually filled in with fresh water. A great place for sailing and enjoying the country side and an area where my mother spent a lot of her youth. The Scots were avid dingy sailers and where accomplished racers.
Saturday night, Celias 80th, a great meeting of lots of cousins and greatly enjoyed by all and a good knees-up.
My sister Julia, my brother Bill, his partner Pippa dancing the ‘Gay Gorden’ and Julia with Aunt Celia.
Shame no photographic evidence of Max and I doing ‘Strip the Willow’ !!!
Sunday, lazy long breakfast with cousins and family in B & B and then off for a quick hours trip on Barton Broad on a cousins boat. Then we find out the ‘Tour of Britain’ cycle race is coming through the next village on its first leg, so off we go to find a spot outside a pub. Well… lots of waiting, cheering at one of the many cop bikes passing, and then,,,great excitement as the riders fly past in 3 secs, followed by a long line of support cars that lasts about 2 mins.. Well, now been there,,,, done that,,, and it all looks so much better on TV.
Back to London for a weeks work, and Max goes to Yasmin’s house in Chichester to scout out the area and get a whole lot of jobs done before the ‘’Goodwood Revival’’ weekend arrives and then we return to France.,
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