We came early from our holiday in Alsace/Germany a week early because it rained everyday for two weeks, so disappointing. All the locals said the weather was weird this year and camping is not fun in such conditions. We like to walk a lot so sightseeing by car is a bore and getting soaked by sudden downpours is no fun. Saw enough to make us want to return some day.
Sorry to hear you had to cut short your holiday Scully - camping in the rain is no fun. This month has been so wet.
I'm trying to encourage my wife to go camping. Rewrote the last two posts and took screenshot of them: "Glad to hear you had to extend your holiday Scully - camping is such fun. This month has been the sort of month to encourage anybody to go camping, particularly for the first time with two young children."
"We came home late from our holiday in Alsace/Germany - a week longer because it was sunny as usual, everyday for two weeks, so good. All the locals said the weather was typical this year and camping is great fun in such conditions. We like to walk a lot as sightseeing by car is a bore and getting sundrenched by sudden sunbursts is fun. Saw enough to make us want to return forever."
Actually we've been looking seriously at Canada due to strong family connection. We've never discussed emigration before but we are both unsure of what we're going to hand on to our kids. Camping was a distraction from the current horrible reality.
Canada is quite rightly very selective who they let in to their country, a position the UK is hoping to set up. I know of a couple that tried to move there to set up a business but there were so many conditions they gave up.
We had a Canadian teacher over here on exchange last year - from what she told us, Education is treated as a priority over there and is well-funded. Sounds like the sort of place to take young children.
Had a good chat to my neighbour this morning who has a house in Florida. He tells me that the mood over there is very ugly with Trump and wouldn't be surprised if someone took a pot shot at him before long. He spent quite a lot of his working life over there, but believes that the gulf between the haves and the have nots is greater than seen in Europe, even taking into account the divide between the north and south.
I'm sure the divide is worse there, ofh. Trump is a product of inherited wealth over solid graft, blind self-belief over reflective self-questioning, mouth over brain, syrup over scalp. He is hideous, but a man who offers simple answers to complex questions - how en vogue. As for someone taking a potshot, I'm reminded of Bill Hicks in terms of the justice of fate: "Lennon, dead; Gandhi, dead; Kennedy, dead; King, dead; Reagan, wounded."
Morning all, a beautiful sunny day in rural France. I spent a thoroughly enjoyable evening yesterday at the local primary/junior school where the children were performing the end of term display, together with the prize giving for just about everything you could imagine. The result was that every child received a prize. Of course being France there was a lengthy break in the proceedings for food and drink, and the chance to have a gossip. I don't think I could repeat some of what I heard about the UK on this thread.
