just another morning here

Grimper is a particularly nice french verb isn’t it? Well I like it, anyway, surely one of my favourites.

We have had a very laid back day today; after sleeping in for ages we finally got up and had breakfast, then eventually the children got dressed. 2/3 of them went up to do the ‘children’s activities’ at the bar, which was nothing much, just making windmills, but it kept them amused. The other one lay in bed for ages … while Steve and I alternated between reading and internet, while sitting in the lounge area of the bar.

Back to the caravan for lunch, then afterwards came the highlight of the day, a tree-climbing session that Abbie and Joe had signed up for. They had great fun climbing up ropes into trees, and then doing the monkey bridge (see fairly rubbish video). I stuck around and watched for the whole time; the instructor only spoke a bit of English – one of the campsite staff was there as a translator but I did a better job so when she saw that I was staying she left!

Meanwhile Steve and Anna were cycling round the campsite doing daft tricks, Steve did a particularly stupid one and fell off his bike and hurt his back so we will probably have another quiet day tomorrow rather than going into Paris as planned! Luckily it wasn’t anything too terrible, he’s just bruised his back – and he knows it was all his own fault for being daft so he’s not moaning too much! Drugs and alcohol are helping …

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