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Trip
We took some books —
(A Mercedes estate full is about a fifth of what I own. Why do I own so many books?)
— to France, to leave in Dave the pub’s garage until our sale is complete. Normally we fly and hire a car the other end. Going on the ferry is a whole different way to travel.
(I may be late for the challenge, but Value Dinosaur is most dissatisfied with the Brittany Ferries' website’s total lack of a list of prices, so you have no way of deciding to go by the cheapest route unless you can be bothered to sit and select and compare every possible option, one at a time. And in order to qualify for the “day trip” discount, you actually have to tick the “I want the special offer” box, otherwise they charge you full price.)
Emerging after eleven hours in a metal box, I am struck like I haven’t been for years at how big the sky is in France. Wide-angle lenses just give up. My eyes, used to peering between skyscrapers in London, try to crawl around to where my ears are, just to begin to take it in. Mr Muchly has tears in his own eyes.
It’s just so beautiful, I can hardly believe we’re going to live there.
We’ve been given some tubers to plant; the name of what they are resolutely fails to stick in my head, but when grown, they look like small triffids. I plant five in pots, and leave them in the care and shelter of the well; if anything can make sure they get a little rain, it can.
We sit on the doorstep, eating bread and cheese.
"Do you want some more of this camembert before it completely runs away in the sun?"
"Oh, go on then. We are on holiday."
Are we? This doesn’t quite feel like holiday any more.
And neither direction quite feels like going home.
Posted by Somewhat under Kerino on 2004.05.15 @ 15.10.
You have the conch:
brandelion
said:
almost there, S. almost. the in-between is a little bumpy but i'm certain, at least for you and Mr. Muchly, it will be worth it in the end.
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2004.05.15 @ 15.21
dan
said:
Ah, patience, Muchly...
Your new home sounds quite grand!
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2004.05.16 @ 01.00
Blue Witch
said:
Cannas?
Value Dinosaur indeed :)
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2004.05.17 @ 08.56
Somewhat
said:
Thanks BW, that's what they are.
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2004.05.17 @ 10.03
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