cram post á france » thursday 6th july > trip down to portsmouth, hot as hell on the m6 toll, nice smooth sail overnight on brittany ferries; vendredi 7éme juillet > en france, lunch with friend jc who owns l’equinoxe bar at agon coutainville, crashed hard after reaching the gite near coutances; samedi > spent the day in gévezé for stage 7 of le tour de france, beers at half ten, vin rose for lunch, coffee on the way home :) dimanche > lazy day, gutted at france being put out of la coup du monde on penalties; lundi > lazy day, finally started watching season two of lost; mardi > went to villedieu-les-poêles for the weekly market, usual mix of fruit+veg, faded-in-the-sun DVDs and leather wallets — left with today’s international herald tribune; mercredi > visited memorial at caen — huge memorial site commemorating wwii and the cold war, met up with friends starting their holiday in coutances today; jeudi > lazy day, picked up new sony headphones, munchies at oncle scott’s country restaurant et bier mexicaine, found the horse soldiers on arte in english with french subs — woot! — then packing, packing, packing; vendredi > bastille day: vive la france, last minute shopping, un grande dejeuner á l’equinoxe, nice leisurely drive to cherbourg, high speed ferry back to portsmouth, ; saturday > » sore back, had breakfast with amanda, back still sore, warm drive, ow back, home, unpack, ow back, collapse, ow :)