French France

I haven't blogged for a while again! So, I thought I'd write about my recent holiday to France.

When you think about France, you think about the stereotypical things about it - the same with people who stereotype England with tea and posh speaking citizens. Garlic, stripy t-shirts, croissants... baguettes. I know all too well about baguettes and I don't want to see one for a while! Most breakfasts, lunches and dinners including a baguette or bread of some sort. I must have put on a stone with all of the carbs! I'm going to see if it makes a difference by not eating it for a while.

Apart from the 14 hour car journey and the 4 hour ferry journey, the rest was a good holiday! I hate the travelling part, you just want to arrive at your destination already. The weather was lovely every day - which is what you would expect from the south of France. It would sometimes start cloudy, but after that - the blue skies and sunshine would appear, blasting heat. The highest it got up to was around 35 degrees, I don't know how I'm going to survive when I travel to Egypt in September!

We travelled to the beach for a few days, which was around a five minute drive from the campsite that we stayed at, Le Tedey. The waves were perfect for boogie boarders and surfers - of course, you can tell the ones that surfed... the stereotypical surfer. The only problem with the ocean, was that it was freezing cold. As it's on the Atlantic coast, I guess you would expect that - but I had a shock when I dipped my toes in for the first time! Eventually, I managed to go all of the way in and turned into an ice cube.

Le Tedey was situated on a lake. This was perfect if you didn't want to go in the car that day and the water was a lovely temperature to dip into. There were many windsurfing and sailing across, along with the occasional jet skier. We ventured onto a catamaran across the lake to an island where we had a small, but appetising lunch on the beach. The French man tried very hard to speak English, I felt quite sorry for him! An activity that we also went onto was a pedalo, we were allowed an hour out on the lake and I could tell that I really needed to do some more leg work as they ached the next day. Of course, all positives have downsides - the downside for the lake beach was the amount of pine needles all of the way along, which stuck into your feet.

What I am surprised about and jealous that England don't do the same selection of Carte D'or ice cream as France do! I know it's French, but the variety was huge! My liking was toward the salted caramel, crème brulee and mint. Having this most days, I'm still not bored of ice cream. I am going to miss my daily orangina though. Oh, and the weather - getting back into the UK... it's raining, as per.

Let's see how long it takes for my tan to fade.