France

Fountain at the Palace of Versailles near Paris

I see it has been a long, long time since I last wrote to you.  I'm sorry about that!  We have been so busy doing fun things.  After we left London we moved on to France.  We took a ferry (a boat that you drive your car, or in our case, our campervan on to) from England to France.  

The Eiffel Tower in Paris

Once we were in France we went to a campground in the northern part of France.  We saw a little town called St. Aubin Sur Mer--which made me think of Ryley!  The campground we stayed at had amazing food.  The French make delicious meals and we have eaten some wonderful things.  The cheese they make here is especially good!

Anne at the catacombs

We visited Paris for about one week.  Paris is a big city with amazing museums in it.  If you like art, Paris is the place to be.  Paris was really busy because the school children had a 10 day holiday at the end of October (when we were there).  We saw many famous paintings, such as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci.  We also visited these cool catacombs that are underground.  The catacombs are where old bones of millions of people are buried.  You can walk through the catacombs--they're like a giant maze.  During World War II resistance fighters hid out in the catacombs.  Did you know about that Jeffrey?

St. Martin Vesubie--street drain!

After Paris we went to the French Alps to do some hiking.  We went to this little village called St. Martin Vesubie.  We stayed in an apartment in the old, medieval village and every morning we would get up and walk to the baker's to pick up some croissants and petit pain au chocolat for breakfast.  Very, very yummy.  We drove up super steep, windy, narrow roads to get up high into the mountains.  Then we would go for a hike.  Lots of times we saw mountain goats.  There was snow in the mountains, up to about 1 metre deep.  Anne made a movie trailer about our walks, I'll post it so you can see it.

Mountain Goat

How did your progress reports go?  I know you all did your best!

Mountains near St. Martin Vesubie