postcards from France 4

a building in the not very French sounding name of Tinchbray

Hello.....The sun is shining....Yipee!!!!

Lonlay-l-Abbaye

I am off to visit Shan in Preston today but before I go thought I would put up another postcard from France.

Inside the Abbey

While we were there we very extravagantly did two special day trips.

Granville

On one day we drove to Granville and got the boat over to Jersey.

Jersey

Where we had lunch in St Helier and took an open topped bus tour of the south west of the island. It was a small slice of England in the middle of out French Adventure.

A long time ago Hubby and I went to Paris, very early in our relationship. We spent two whole days seeing EVERYTHING....except the weekend we were there...the staff of the Eiffel Tower were on strike....Hubby was gutted!

So early one morning we drove to Flers and caught a train to Paris....

.....just to go up the Eiffel Tower!

Second floor.....see the litttle ants?

So it was a glorious summer day at the beginning of August and we queued to go via the stairs to the first and second floors. We stopped for breath and a drink.

There was still an awful long way to go. The next stage we queued for was the lift to the top.

Going up!

But the view was worth the 2 hours standing in a queue to get up there

Look at all the teeny tiny people!

arc de triomphe

Then we had to queue for an other hour to get back down!
Mission accomplished we still had time to grab a bite to eat and take a boat trip along the Seine.

Before a mad dash to the train station for the trip back to the gite.

so now we can tick it off the list!