2019-09 Family Visit to France
On a mid-September morning, we started our 5-day trip to visit my family in France by getting the early ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe. We had a fantastic time eating Mum's home-cooked food, creating balloon animals (poor Ruby wasn't a fan when they went bang), staring at the stars without any light pollution (although Lee was annoyed with the full moon) and playing with our nieces Sophia and Ruby. The weather was variable. When the sun was out, it was like a summer's day but when the clouds turned up, it turned a little cold and we needed to put jumpers on. Mum's tomato crop was a big one this year and even though it was close to the end of the season, there were still hundreds of big, fat, juicy tomatoes to be picked, washed, chopped (apparently I wasn't very good at this according to Lee and Mum) and cooked up into sauce to be frozen. It put my measly 6 plants to shame! Lee and I are always on the hunt for craft beer and Mum and Dad found a little diamond in...