Vac Swim. Welcome to 2013.

 

As this will be my view for the next 10 days it seemed like a good idea to do a bit of blogging. Our friends, the Buckleys, got in touch overnight to say they had been able to book their flights to Brittany for our week there. We booked our flights a couple of weeks before Xmas with Ryanair whom, I suppose, are OK if you know what you are letting yourselves in for. They are reasonably cheap but very no-frills indeed. We have rented a house in Treverien, Brittany, for a week. It is called La Forge and is by a canal and most definitely NOT in a tourist area. The hope is that we can immerse ourselves in the romantic picture of what being in France actually entails. We will see how the reality works out.

There really is so much to arrange when you have 4 people going around the world for 13 weeks. We have found some really great free tours in New York but they need to be booked months in advance as does the obligatory trip to Alcatraz in San Francisco etc etc.

I had a bit of a result overnight too hearing from the lady who owns La Forge our Brittany home. She has a son in Sydney with whom she will be staying next Xmas. She suggested that I could send him a cheque to pay for the house and she would use the AU$ when she visited. Win-win. I save on the transfer fee and we both get a better exchange rate.

I also set the kids research tasks this morning and printed out sheets where they had to research where we are staying in each destination and look into 5 activities for our stay there including costs and distance from our accommodation and how we could get there. So far they have been observers in the whole process. They need to do a journal for school but we have negotiated that this could be a Blog instead. It's a whole lot more 'Now' than a journal and a damn sight easier to carry about.

 

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