Monday 12 September 2011

Summer 2011

Sorry i havent posted for a while. Over the summer i have been travelling around France and England with my parents in our little 1979 camper van!!! :)

After the Olympic camp, i celebrated my 16th birthday at my grandparents in Coventry, all the family came around for a bbq. From Coventry we headed to our friend John's in Kent, he has a cool place with lots of land, i got to learn to ride a motocross bike correctly and to drift in an mx5 sports car! a fun few days!!




We then went across to the south west and padstow area to see some friends down there, we did lots of cool stuff! climbing on the cliffs, exploring caves for pirates treasure but we didn't find!




 We also played crazy golf and pitch and putt, not my thing until i tried hitting the ball like Happy Gilmore!

 

Tried surfing, well they did i just drowned and got back out haha, i also had my first ever cream tea was awesome!! :)



 and just hung around!



We headed back to france travelling down through brittany visiting where i holidayed with school a few years back and then followed all the way along the Loire valley and back home to Courch. We were back home for a couple of days and then left for west coast of France with my parents and a mate. It took us 5 days to get there because on our way the alternator in our van broke so we had to get it repaired turns out that not many people have a 1979 vw alternator spare haha. We visited some historic places on the way at Pont du Gard and the arena in Nimes.



 and drove through Grenade! We finally got to Capbreton / Hossegor, i went surfing again and loved it this time! it might have some thing to do with the fact that the waves were small but still was scary for me ! haha, we planned to surf a few days however the waves disappeared completely so we spent the next few days just travelling around on our cool cruiser bikes we hired,


We saw a load of locals jumping off the bridge into estuary so gave that a few goes. We then headed up to jarnac in cognac region for a friends wedding was cool. After that we came back home to Courch via the Dordogne, Central Massif and Rhone Valley. After this trip didnt realise France had such a Medieval history and so much to see. Now just chilling and till i get back on the snow, only few weeks till i head to Hintertux Austria.