Thursday, June 22, 2017

Friday 15th June-21st June 2017- Gosh where does time go?

I am writing this update on 22nd June a day before Joanne and family return to the UK via Dieppe.
Last weekend was very hot which we thought would be great news for when the family arrived on Monday night and  so on the Monday morning we were off bright and early, for us anyway, and headed in to Lisieux to the large Leclerc hypermarket to do some food shopping. We chose doing our shopping here as we know from experience that the local Carrefour stock is often depleted on a Monday morning whereas the big Leclerc always has loads of stuff. So after a couple of hours shopping we headed back and loaded up there and our refrigerators with all the shopping.

At about 1700 the family arrived after a long journey after having to leave home around 6.30 in the morning and so immediately off to the swimming pool they went and Jen and I prepared the table for the planned BBQ.  So we had a nice BBQ and Ingrid came to join us for the four course meal where we cooked, as usual, too much meat but it was delicious.
The following day was a day of rest and swimming and boy is it getting hot with temperatures getting around 32 C but it feels hotter than that and so we hid under the trees for some shade. Then a light evening meal and off to bed with two tired children et al.
We had decided that on Wednesday, half way through there short break we should give them a day out in an Air Conditioned Land cruiser as 34 C is promised today and so we took in the sites of Le Brevedent, and up over the hills to Cabourg where we purchased snacks and we had planned to sit on the sea front  but it was much to hot for all of us. Then a tour along the coast via Houlgate, to Deauville and Trouville and then slowly back via Pont L’Eveque for some food shopping for tonight’s tea. We had thought about having another BBQ but quite frankly for Noel to stand in front of a very hot grill in 33 C was too much and so we waited until almost 9pm when it was cool enough to consider eating.
Its promising to be cooler tomorrow. Let’s hope so as it far to hot to really do anything except sit and avoid the heat. The caravan got up to 37C at one point but thankfully cooled down to around 25 C also a bit hot for sleeping.