Robin and Star on the VeloRail
Robin smoking his pipe on the VeloRail
Green stuffs on a walk
Star proving that she is conversational in Duck
Star NEVER takes this jacket off.
Tzigane waiting for her ball
Star pretending to be a cow
More green stuffs
Sunday, May 24, 2009
VeloRail and a Walk
Robin smoking his pipe on the VeloRail
Green stuffs on a walk
Star proving that she is conversational in Duck
Star NEVER takes this jacket off.
Tzigane waiting for her ball
Star pretending to be a cow
More green stuffs
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Pick Chore Zezz
House of the mean French woman in Valady, France.
Valady, France
Robin in my favorite room in the house of the mean French woman in Valady, France.
Same room, same Robin.
You know.
There was nowhere to sit on the train to Vire, so Star decided to sit on the luggage racks.
We got lost on our walk back from Sourdeval one day. We walked for 9 hours and passed this cow 3 times.
Star in Vire.
On a walk.
Star on Mont Saint-Michel.
This is what happens when you ask Star to pose for you.
Mont Saint-Michel
View of Mont Saint-Michel from our campsite.
View of Mont Saint-Michel from our campsite.
Waiting for the tide to race in.
Playing shuffleboard on a picnic table.
Night lights at Mont Saint-Michel.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Update
Since my last post -
The three of us moved to a small town outside of Rodez. We stayed with a mean old French woman and had our first negative HelpX experience. We left after just a week.
We then moved to a cattle farm in Normandy. It turns out that Robin does not have the "gift" of moving 200 beef cattle. We also decided here that we will not own cows ourselves. We made dandelion honey, which was delicious, but it crystalised within days.
A week later, we moved to our next host in Normandy. The hosts there were great, and they went out of their way to teach us new things. Here:
-we learned to gut fish - much easier than I thought it would be
-Robin killed a guinea fowl, defeathered a chicken and skinned a rabbit
-we learned to chop and stack wood (the French are very particular about their wood piles)
-we learned to tell the difference between a chicken egg and a duck egg
-we learned which fruit trees self-pollinate
-we tried lots of new foods (escargot is much better than I would have thought, but I couldn't get over the fact that I was eating snails)
We then moved to Lower Normandy. We'll be here until 6 June, go to Paris for a few days, and then head back to Edinburgh.
To family members who are using my blog as the primary source of keeping track of us as we travel, sorry for not posting in a while. We're happy and safe. Robin is busy planning his play. Star's hair is short again. France is beautiful, but I now have absolutely no desire to live here (that leaves us with Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland as possibilities for a cabin.)
I'm really tired.
Just wanted to write an update.
Pictures soon.
Indeed.
The three of us moved to a small town outside of Rodez. We stayed with a mean old French woman and had our first negative HelpX experience. We left after just a week.
We then moved to a cattle farm in Normandy. It turns out that Robin does not have the "gift" of moving 200 beef cattle. We also decided here that we will not own cows ourselves. We made dandelion honey, which was delicious, but it crystalised within days.
A week later, we moved to our next host in Normandy. The hosts there were great, and they went out of their way to teach us new things. Here:
-we learned to gut fish - much easier than I thought it would be
-Robin killed a guinea fowl, defeathered a chicken and skinned a rabbit
-we learned to chop and stack wood (the French are very particular about their wood piles)
-we learned to tell the difference between a chicken egg and a duck egg
-we learned which fruit trees self-pollinate
-we tried lots of new foods (escargot is much better than I would have thought, but I couldn't get over the fact that I was eating snails)
We then moved to Lower Normandy. We'll be here until 6 June, go to Paris for a few days, and then head back to Edinburgh.
To family members who are using my blog as the primary source of keeping track of us as we travel, sorry for not posting in a while. We're happy and safe. Robin is busy planning his play. Star's hair is short again. France is beautiful, but I now have absolutely no desire to live here (that leaves us with Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland as possibilities for a cabin.)
I'm really tired.
Just wanted to write an update.
Pictures soon.
Indeed.
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