Holiday Notes

There she goes, disappearing into the distance as we sail out of Caen. Home in six hours after a pretty good holiday.
 
Thanks for reading, more when I'm next on holiday. Adios.

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The facilities at Caen are not very special. Or, in other words, they're similar to a motorway service station in the UK; grotty.

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If you want to build a bridge from brick, this is the wah to do it.

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I can't be certain but I think this is a device for lifting cows. Exactly why this might be necessary is unclear.

   

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Our last night in France finds us in Esvres sur Indre, a stone's throw from Tours and within striking distance of Caen for the ferry home. The B&B took some finding but we're here (
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Just returned from dinner in nearby Cormery at Auberges du Mail. Good food and good value; recommended.

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And our time in the Dordogne ends with a relaxed sunny day where inactivity has been our most eagerly pursued objective and laziness our most fervent desire; in both of these we succeeded.
 
Tomorrow we start the long trip home, stopping overnight near Tours before heading on Monday for Caen (I think). England beckons, and we come.

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This was taken from a bridge over the Dordogne, so the river is probably the Dordogne (geography isn't my strong suit).

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What do you do in rural France when you just want to relax? You go for a coffee and a cake but, because this part of France is very rural, you have to go quite a long way. We had a decent coffee (no idea where) but no cake, unfortunately.
 
When you return to the apartment you can have an ice cold Coke. Or not, if you forgot to move the cans from the freezer (where you'd placed them the previous day for a bit of rapid chilling) to the fridge. Coke doesn't take well to freezing, and neither do the cans. In fact, Coke in the freezer is a recipe for coating everything else in the freezer with a thick layer of frozen Coke; not advised.

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Cooler today (27 degrees, or therabouts), but climbing up fro river level is still warm work. Nice village; more photos posted later - I think they're being mangled somewhere in the system.

   

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Doors are seldom impressive and these ones are pretty bland. If it weren't for their sheer scale they'd be completely uninteresting but they're the largest doors I've seen for quite a while.

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