Only the Washing Up!

This time the kids were wise to the surprise . . . sort of.

Seeing Ruth check her phone for messages as we pulled into the campsite at Amboise, they followed me into reception in an attempt to listen in to my conversation.

However, their detective work neither helped them guess the identity of the visitors (they thought it was our French friends, Jacques and Annie, who had recommended the campsite), nor the sheer pleasure in meeting up again with our dear Dutch friends Dick and Josein, with whom we shared happy times in Morocco.

We spent a wonderfully silly afternoon looking round Leonardo da Vinci’s gaff (connected to Francois I’s royal chateau by a secret tunnel) and marvelling at his inventions, before having a late evening outside the van.

We went cycling along the Loire the following morning and swimming in the afternoon before heading to town for a food market then returning for an early night. We waved goodbye to them this morning as we set off to Bayeux and tomorrow’s ferry home. It was great to see Dick and Josien again, and to spend time in their company.

This will be the last blog on foreign soil because we’re back in England tomorrow lunchtime. Hope to see many of you at Tolpuddle!

Until then, two words: Comrades, Tony Benn!

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