Finally another post

Bonjour

Yes, we know it’s been a while since the last post. The copywriting team made a quick trip back home for family catch ups, house and medical stuff and re-acclimatizing to warm weather, humidity and all things familiar. When I say a quick trip – 60 hours from door to door. No dramas, but just very long. Don’t really want to watch another movie for a while, although I watched the entire first season of Young Sheldon which was unexpectedly very good.

I arrived back on Good Friday but to break up the journey back we met up in Paris for a couple of days before a train trip to Cherbourg.  The plane landed at 7:30 am and it was great to be able to go straight to the hotel, and freshen up and try staying awake till normal bedtime (failed at that). Good Friday is not a public holiday in France – just a normal work day, although Easter Monday is a holiday with most things shut. On Easter Saturday we played tourist and spent the day on one of those hop on/hop off buses with English commentary which was a great way to see the main big attractions in Paris. Even though it was cold and a bit rainy, there were crowds of people everywhere. Huge queues at Louvre, Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. The Arc De Triomphe roundabout has the crazy, free-for-all traffic shooting off in all directions and suicidal tourists standing in the middle of it all taking selfies.

Here’s a few photos

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Near Notre Dame – if you zoom in you can see bullet holes from WW2
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Check out the queue. Imagine what the crowds would be like on a warm Summer day! Strong police presence everywhere – armed and ready for action.
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Sacre Coeur….and more crowds
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Steps up and down to Sacre Couer. It’s the highest point in Paris so goes to show that the city is quite flat. No wonder the Seine floods on a regular basis
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The best of a really, really bad bunch of selfies

But now back in Cherbourg and Spring is springing. Daylight saving started last week and so it’s more or less light till 9pm and the days will keep getting longer. And many trees are showing signs or green shoots and flowers.

That’s about it for now. But before we go, thanks for some very nice feedback from some of our readers. Sometimes we get comments that suggest people don’t know when a new post is published, so we think you can actually get an email alert to let you know if there is something new to read. You just place your mouse over one of the headings (e.g. Finally another post”) and you should see a little window pop up in the bottom right hand corner that says ‘follow”. If you click on this and enter your email address then you should get notifications in future.

Well, off to French lessons now. Our French teacher, Celine has the patience of a saint.

Au reviour

L & M.