Hello friends old and new. Man so much has happened since we left cold, rainy Ireland. From swimming to eating, from eating to castle touring, from castle touring to electric scootering, from electric scootering to biking, from biking to eating pizza at a pizza vending machine that dispenses really good pizza. Ok I’ll start from the top down.
My Swimming Schedule
Week 1
Much swimming every day. All three pools lovely 1 pool for heat, 1 pool for swimming laps, 1 pool for all around fun. Rating 9/10
Week 2
No pool for a week. Rating 0/10 🙁
Week 3- 5
Small personal pool. At the start your average lake looked nicer. But it is better now, crystal clear. Lovely pool. Rating 8/10
As you can see lots of pools.
Castle no I’m sorry Chateau touring has also has been a large part of the month so far. We went and saw the Chateau of Rohan (Has Tolkien been there?) in our first week and spent a whole day at Guedelon in our second. Our second week was in a small town in the loire valley near Sully sur loire. you could not travel down a street for five minutes before seeing a Chateau. So many Chateaus!! Here in our long stay near Bordeaux we have only seen one Chateau ( jaw drops with horror)!!
At our stay in Carnac I noticed that the leaflet said that the campsite was a great place to hover board and electric scooter. I thought it was weird that they would say that if they did not rent them out. And I was half right. I asked at reception about it, and he said that they were rented out every night between 6-8 pm infront of the bar. I went down at 6 and there were loads of electric scooters, but no hover boards. 🙁 So I came back the next day and there was still only electric scooters. I kind of wanted one though so I shared the price with Nate. We got it for 24 hours and it was fun. it had a super big battery and we got to ride it all day I would estimate that it could go 30km/h I liked the speed, but I loved the acceleration! 🙂
Biking. There has not been as much biking as one would prefer. One would prefer four times more. But one must not be picky. One ride in Carnac. Two or three in Loire vally. Two here so far.
We were on our ride in Carnac when we realised we needed refuelling. We looked around an there was a pizza place. Alas it was closed. we turned the corner and there was a pizza vending machine!! Two pizzas later we all agreed that we were really surprised at how good it was. It was great!!
Tim
