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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Just back from France and feeling fully refreshed!
2 weeks in the variable Normandy climate was only dampened by the drive back in which we got caught up in the floods in and around Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Stratford, Oxford Warwick, Heathrow and most of the M25 - which I think acts as a run-off from all arable farmland outside the nation's capital, providing a cool place to swim should drivers get sick of sitting motionless in their cars for extended periods.
Of course, we wouldn't have been there had it not been for our desire to fight our way across the country to visit my wife's mother and her husband, and to drop Jamie off at a local activity centre for the week in the aptly-named hamlet of Hole in the Wall.
15 hours of travel from across continental Europe, finished in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. And, many, many thanks to the lovely lady in the Whatley Hall Hotel, Banbury (of ride-cock-horse fame - that's Banbury, not the lovely lady) who, although didn't have a room for us - did phone round and identify the De Montford Hotel as a place for us to finally rest for the night.
Anyway, we hacked our way across England to Ledbury on Saturday and spent a rather more relaxing 24-hours there before making our way north and out of harm's way.
Great to be back though - and determined to keep up a more regular blog.
.: posted by Ali 2:27 PM
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