Saturday, October 29, 2011

France 2011

We had a wonderful two weeks in the south of France, near a town called Bezier.

Kids waiting to get on the ferry
a stop off en route for dinner and the night



outside the Hotel
second day of driving - the kids were so great with all the travel

ice-creams to cool us down as the heat intensified
finally arrived at our beautiful gite after two days driving

very very hot
kids dinner (Matha, Reuben, Sebbie, Stella in Nina's arms, Zach, JoJo, Eddie, Gracie)
early morning
a walk in the heat of the morning

so many snails!
watching the local ferrel cats
a day in Bezier for Becca & Anita



family dinner with Grandma & Grandpa
Martha loved floating around
Zach loved jumping (& Belly-flopping) in to the pool

Sam & Tom went to the local annual Bull-fight & festival (which was sadly rained off soon after it started)
view of Bezier from our gite


Martha & stella
a trip to Bezier for Zach, Sam & Grandpa

Zach & Sam climbed to the top of the church (or "castle" according to Zach)


chillin' in the pool
family gorge-walk


gorge-jumping



dinner-out - kids entertained by the restaurant parrot
more ice-cream!
baguettes!!
Martha & Mummy's shoes

Roo & Zach had a great time together..

our own church service
Martha communing with God in the olive grove
Gretta doing children's church

kids having fun... led by Gracie
Sam & I had a wonderful day out canoeing down the river





clearing up

amazing full double rainbow on our last night
stop-off for dinner (more ice-cream!) and night on our way home
on the ferry..

4 comments:

Megs said...

favourite pic: Zachary and the snails!
favourite comment: Martha communing with God in the olive grove!

Unknown said...

mmmm....this looks so completely revitalizing, fulfilling, enlivening...and exhausting! What a glorious holiday.

Megs said...

THANK YOU so much, lovelies, for the package of love and art for us! I love my healing pictures from Becca and Zachary (AND YOU CAN WRITE YOUR NAME ZACH!), and Bens loves his birthday art from Martha and Zachary! Thank you darlings for thinking of us.
Love Meg

gretta at lothlorien said...

Great memories... I love those 2 little girls busily cooking stones together at the bottom of the steps.