Bonjour tous!

Alors, mon weekend avec les familles Boisnard et Faux etait merveilleux!   It was 2 days full of catching up, relaxing with friends, eating great food, visiting new places, and speaking in a delightful albeit confusing mix of french and english.  You know, I see a trend here. I really do keep coming back to wonderful meals when I think about good times had.  Maybe this is a hint — looks like gastronomical tourism for my anthro thesis is becoming more and more likely….

I spent Friday night at the Fauxs, with Annick and Andre.  They are both healthy and happy, which is about the best 2 traits in the world!  This photo of them is actually not from this trip, but a year ago.  I realized that I might not have given it or shown it to my family, so I added it here.  I think I took a couple pictures of their house this year  also, but it wasn’t quite as fully spring this time, and if anyone wants to really see how pretty their house is, look at my facebook album “A dopo” — it’s like the quintessential french-countryside dream!

We spent almost all of saturday at Cap-Ferret, on the coast.  We had an amazing meal of oysters on the back patio of the Faux’s beach house with Annick, Andre, Agathe and her family, and another family both the Boisnards and the Fauxs know.  About 4/5th of the conversation was in french and the rest english/franglish, which made for some funny misunderstandings on my part.  But I am constantly amazed at the level of english comprehension in everyone I meet. Seems like everyone can at least understand a bit. 

After lunch we leisurely walked on the beach of the cape and through the little fishermen villages.  During the summer the Cap-Ferret is a huge tourist destination, but now it’s quiet and has more of a local and laid-back feel, which is perfect.  I said goodbye to Annick and Andre, and headed to the Boisnard’s in Bordeaux proper where we  ate dinner and passed a great evening.   Another couple hours and I was headed back on the train.  Can you believe there’s a direct train from bordeaux to Strasbourg? It was a fantastic weekend and I only hope I can visit everyone again someday soon (and this time have my family come with!)!

Coming soon: my post about my love for trains :)

Holiday