Every Which Way But Lost

  Friday 1st January Today we head into town for geocaching and sightseeing. Unfortunately we struggle to find quite a few of the caches and blame our failure on the French to English translation – clearly someone/thing has to take the blame. Even looking in the Japanese garden next to Zen doesn’t bring us any luck. Failed to find 4 out 7 but at least it takes us to parts of the city we would otherwise have not visited. Back…

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Friday 11th December Today is French lesson day so we start early so we can squeeze in a dog walk before Odile arrives. Odile arrives and John shortly after. Sandy and Mike are off for a weekend break in Mirepoix. So whilst Daz has his lesson, I clean and tidy the tool shed next to our gite. Then I have my lesson and Daz tidies the storage tent in the garden. Everything is spic and span. After lunch we go…

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Wednesday 25th November It’s been raining all night and it’s looking like it’s going to be a pretty miserable day. We wander over to the house but without any real enthusiasm for the day ahead. There’s a lull in the heavy downpour and we take full advantage and take Rushka, Taiga and Kael for a walk. Kael is fast becoming Daz’s favourite – he does seem the most affectionate. After the walk we manage to get one shrub pruned before…

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  Thursday 12th November A foggy start to the day and I think there’s a very fine drizzle but Daz says it’s just the moisture in the mist. But since when has a bit of moistness been enough to deter us – never says Daz. So we start work clearing an area for the compost bin Daz is going to make. First we move a couple of old log piles and then we do some weeding. When Sandy comes out…

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Friday 6th November – Bordeaux more sightseeing A really slow start this morning. We’re not out the door until gone 11am but in our defence we heard the rain earlier and we’ve been waiting for the skies to clear. We cycle to the food market, which we missed yesterday because it closes in the afternoon. After the early rain it’s turned into another beautiful day and it’s so lovely to be cycling the streets of Bordeaux; it has so many…

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Deba to Bordeaux – 29th Oct to 5th November 2015   Thursday 29th October – Deba to San Sebastian 51.39 km completed 47.5 kmph max speed 12.9 kmph average Total 390.7km We’re off to a slow start. After sharing our room with our wet tent and ground sheet, we have that to repack, but at least it’s dry now. Then we cycle past the huge church we looked in on last night to the main square in Deba for brekkie….

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Tuesday 12th January Today it’s pretty much all painting for me. More coats of paint on the shutters and then primer on the shutters Daz and Martin have prepared over the last couple of days. Meanwhile Daz continues work bringing down the level where the swimming pool used to stand. Poor sod – he’s definitely got the harder job; 5 hours of digging!   Wednesday 13th January A fabulous day off today, we all go to Ax les Thermes skiing…

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