Acts of God

So this week we have been visited by The McNeils! Here is a little photo of Emma & Alex enjoying Nantes on their first day here, although by the end of the trip they were looking a little less smiley...




It was a shame that Alex & I had to be in hospital for a lot of their trip what with it being mid-week, but we caught up when we could for drinks and a bit of shopping, and a trip to the planetarium which is one of the tourist attractions I hadn't even heard of before this week. It was a good one though and the man giving the presentation gave a bit of a shout out to all the Anglais in the audience, and made a point of talking about 'Le Big Dippeurrr' a lot (in French it's called Le Casserole! It does like quite like a saucepan).




Anyway, there was drama last night when we realised that their flight home for this morning was cancelled because of the volcanic cloud! We spent a lot of time in our favourite Novotel trying to research other ways to get back to England but it was kind of crazy, there were clearly loads of other people trying to do the same thing. Eurostar had elevated their prices to unbelievable levels:






Luckily we managed to get them on a ferry from St Malo tomorrow morning, so this afternoon we said our goodbyes and saw them off on the train. Disaster averted.

Tomorrow we're FINALLY going to the beach! And this weekend is the big Carnival de Nantes, so expect some more exciting photos soon.

Marie
xxx