Rosé With Lunch...

Tuesday 20th - fairly breezy but sunny, a comfortable 22 ̊C and a cloudless blue sky.


Today consisted of two hours reading with this view... Jealous? I'm sorry!

Le Pradon

Ma tata Janie et moi

If you look at the photo of the beach in my last blog post, I'm actually sitting against the wall you can see at the left hand side. The day was glorious (thank god) because yesterday was like I had brought the Irish weather with me - grey, drizzly and a cool wind - an understatement would be to say I was not impressed - especially after 8 hours travelling. So this was a great improvement!


Yeah, I had rosé with lunch and a lovely vin rouge de Bordeaux with dinner - cut me a break, I'm on holidays, not au pairing just yet! The wine glasses* that my uncle Bruno used tonight sounded like the Angelus as they clinked when we said 'Santé'... a few more clinks and dings and I would have felt right at home with RTE 1 at 6pm playing in the background!


*Bruno owns many glass sets - typical wine and cheese fanatics here! You open the fridge door and risk your life - that pong would knock a horse out... He claims the stronger it smells the better but no one else quite agrees!

I found this on the fridge in my Tata Janie's house... I wrote it five years ago when I last stayed and was pleasantly surprised they kept something from one of my best memories of my trip!

"Gone to dance in the sprinklers!! Join us! xx (Kiah)" - 22/6/09 

The sprinklers were situated on a roundabout near their house and yes, my cousin and I really did dance in them - and got soaked!


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Anyway, tomorrow I am being collected from here by the mother of the family I'm au pairing for... I don't think I've ever been more nervous - that's the reason for the late-night blog post! I'm scared of how it will all go, especially since my French looks to have become NON-existent (however, I seem to be fluent in Spanish at the moment - not much help) and I'm scared I won't be able to communicate well with them... I will however have presents. Maybe I can win them over with presents?... Oh help!


I'll try survive the day tomorrow and let you know how life is really like as an au pair...