Crozant et L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer
A few pictures of last week's vacation in France...
We decided to split the car trip (of an estimated 10 hours duration without stops) crossing France from east (starting from Geneva) to west (just draw a straight line and you'll see where we were aiming at) in two parts:
So we picked almost randomly a point in the middle, found a cute little camping site and some ruins to visit, and decided that would do the trick :)
Here the pictures, which prove that it's worth stopping and not always leaving out these villages in the middle of nowhere when making a big trip.
More pictures : http://picasaweb.google.com/joellekueng/Crozant
Then on Sunday we took the road again and finally arrived in l'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, where Vincent's mother has a vacation house. The first day the weather wasn't the nicest, as you can see on the first pic, but then we had sun for the rest of the week.
One funny anecdote for those who speak french: in the village before arriving, there was a big poster announcing the "Fete de la Bouse - Open international de tonte de Moutons" happening that week-end, hilarious!! Well if i try to translate, here it goes : Cowshit party and International Sheep Shearing (or "mowing" ;)).
Other than that, people are perfectly normal around here :) Except they're french of course ;)
In La Rochelle
More pictures : http://picasaweb.google.com/joellekueng/LAiguillon07
Picture of the area and beach : http://www.lafautesurmer.net/vueduciel/arcay.jpg
We decided to split the car trip (of an estimated 10 hours duration without stops) crossing France from east (starting from Geneva) to west (just draw a straight line and you'll see where we were aiming at) in two parts:
So we picked almost randomly a point in the middle, found a cute little camping site and some ruins to visit, and decided that would do the trick :)
Here the pictures, which prove that it's worth stopping and not always leaving out these villages in the middle of nowhere when making a big trip.
More pictures : http://picasaweb.google.com/joellekueng/Crozant
Then on Sunday we took the road again and finally arrived in l'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, where Vincent's mother has a vacation house. The first day the weather wasn't the nicest, as you can see on the first pic, but then we had sun for the rest of the week.
One funny anecdote for those who speak french: in the village before arriving, there was a big poster announcing the "Fete de la Bouse - Open international de tonte de Moutons" happening that week-end, hilarious!! Well if i try to translate, here it goes : Cowshit party and International Sheep Shearing (or "mowing" ;)).
Other than that, people are perfectly normal around here :) Except they're french of course ;)
In La Rochelle
More pictures : http://picasaweb.google.com/joellekueng/LAiguillon07
Picture of the area and beach : http://www.lafautesurmer.net/vueduciel/arcay.jpg
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