OK, so we thought we had done with camping. However we are about to take our first holiday in four years and camping is the only option really, so we got the tent out today. Happily it is still in pristine nick, and thanks to Fran who used it last, it was beautifully clean and packed - obviously a prelude to parachute packing! In July we are off to the French five days (orienteering, see http://perso.orange.fr/laco/5J2007/Accueil.htm - sorry, still haven't worked out how to put in a link) down on the sand dunes near Bordeaux.
How about this for a map! Will make a change from some of the forests up here that are pratically flat, with long straight featureless paths and bingo controls in the centre of forest blocks. It will take us a while to get back into navgating by contour again.
I am going to try to mend the airbeds that we bought for Greg & Tom when they came out some years ago - which promptly deflated as soon as they were slept on. Failing that, new ones will have to be aquired. Thermarests are definately not sufficient these days! Hopefully we will have some shade - the site looked to have lots of trees, so fingers crossed.
We're going up to St Brieuc this afternoon to return some books to emmaüs (the ones we can't get online) and to buy plumbing stuff at bricomarché (exciting, eh?). We need to get pipes set into the concrete of the floor, so this needs doing before we order the readymix. After a few nice days, we look to be in for a spell of wet weather again so back to working indoors, and the grass still needs cutting....
2 comments:
That map looks fantastic! I'm really looking forward to living in a country that does "real" orienteering again!
Glad to see the tent is still in good condition. If I was the last to use it then that was about 6 years ago!!
Yup, six years is about right! Jane
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