The weather here in Bretagne has just been amazing. We went to Lamballe to get our shopping for all of our guests next week and there were lots of people doing what the French do best, it's an art form, sitting outside in the square with café and cake just watching the world go by. Tonight though it is more like winter as it's cold and very foggy.
We have so many guests in our B&B over the next two weeks which will be hard work but great fun. After this flurry of madness and mayhem we are disappearing to Paris. We just love Paris. Our first visit was after nine years of living here. The trouble is that where we live there are so many places to visit right on our door step and the coast is only thirty five minutes away so we never kind of got there.
We can't believe that Christmas is just around the corner. We have friends for Christmas lunch. It has been a tradition for us to go for a blow on the beach at Val André every Christmas Eve and back home after to a big log fire. It will be the same this year too.
Christmas is very different in France and is all about family on Christmas Eve. Most of the French have a big family get together and eat at midnight and give presents mainly to the children. The children don't get given anything like children get in the UK. Christmas festivities are all over after Christmas Day as they don't have boxing day or extended holidays and it's all over quickly and back to work. I suppose in reality it is more like 'When I was a lad' A sock with a tangerine and sweets in and if I was lucky a dinky toy and a book. Hey ho happy days!
I ramble on when I should be in bed, good night!
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