It started off great with me getting my Birthday Present - a brand new Ipad Mini! How awesome was that? I think secretly Timm just doesn't want his wife knocked out cold when she falls asleep reading and the Ipad falls on her face.....
McDonalds Birthday Breakfast
Then the day just went downhill from there. TWICE, I kid you not, twice my side mirror got driven off despite my best efforts to pull over as far as I can. The french don't seem to have good judgement when it comes to width of vehicles & speed at which to pass. I was livid and to be quite honest, terrified.
Having lost my confidence Diane then proceeded to send us via narrow country lanes again. At which point I lost it and proceeded to utilise my response car driving skills - aka "Playing Chicken". You just drive down the middle of the lane, forcing the oncoming traffic to slow down (unless they want a head on collision) and when they have slowed down sufficiently you move back over and pass slowly....
By this time it was late afternoon and we pulled into the campsite, nerves shot to hell, hungry and tempers flaring.
So we got on our bikes and cycled back into the village to grab something to eat at a hotel that we had passed.
Well, we pulled in (slops, t-shirt's and dirty shorts) only to realise that we had walked into a Michelin-rated restaurant!! I think our audacity overwhelmed them because they didn't bat an eyelid and led us to a table. I do admit though I felt quite under dressed when people started arriving in smart evening wear.
To sum it up, we had an absolutely phenomenal evening (lasting a good three hours of tasting menu) only to cycle back 5km in the pitch black country side.
P.S. I am the luckiest person in the whole world to have a husband like I do :-) And I'm not saying this because he bought me an Ipad ;-)
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