Trip To France - Part 1

So, on my trip, I stopped off at Riri and Claude's place for a couple of days... They live in a region in the east can't remember what it's called but hey, life goes on... It was pretty cool... I visited the place that my great grandfather was born at - it's this little house above a shop... the house and shop have been renovated since then but the building is essentially the same... in the same town I managed to say hello to his younger brother, André's wife and daughter... the woman's over 90 now and her and André had a car accident when they were much younger so her hearing's not up to much - it's a bit of a struggle trying to talk to the woman but with Francoise there it wasn't quite as much of a bore...
 In the next few days I went with the rest of the gang up to the lake... it's really nice - I've been there a couple of times before but that was when I was much younger and didn't really appreciate it as much... again, this did once belong to my great grandfather but he gave it to Riri's family when he moved down to Langeac so that it could be kept maintained... I think it used to belong a monastery up the hill as a fish reserve for the monks but they were sold off and somehow our family came into having 3... 2 of which everyone kept quite well but one of them has barely been touched until we tried to drain it on the Saturday before last... it turned out one of the plugs on the thing had collapsed so we all had to get a spade and dig until the water was coming out of it... I don't know what's happened to it now because we couldn't finish it all in less than a day...

Later in that day we went to Gene-Daniel and Mariellen's house for dinner... they place is quite beautiful - it's this small village called Charmois... though it may not be big or stunningly diverse it's quite interesting and quaint - with a stork nest on a pole in the middle where you can see the babies etc... In front of their house there's also this beautiful apple tree and because of the time of year all of the little blossoms were out - I got a couple of pictures of them...

Well I cba to write anything else for today...
Have a fun life
Lex
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