About Time

It is about time I wrote something here. But it has all be a bit fraught what with moving up to Vitry just 5 weeks ago...
The biggest alteration in out life has been joining the small local fellowship here in Vitry le François. Impressively we appear to be the response to prayer- the pastor had prayed for someone from Colin Urquhart's church in England to join them. That was our church for 10 years just before we left for France. But this one is all in French, so we could not have coped until now, now that our French language abilities are just capable of keeping up. The pastor is very kind, and does check from time to time if we understand. Not the French jokes I'm afraid. I have not yet worked out the French sense of humour.

Lac du Der - the causeway across the lake

Then there is the opportunity for more tourism on our part. The Lac de Dur is the largest in Europe we are told. It was blisteringly hot yesterday (Sat 9th April 2011) as we explored just 1 corner of it. On the way home I bought a hat. A bit late for this visit but essential for next time.
Later on we will revisit the lake and explore some of the camping available (for visitors, not us) and the sailing, and possibly the swimming too.

Pirates were spotted early afternoon

Our grandson will be interested in the flags. These pirates were spotted near our place. We managed to avoid them and eat all our picnic ourselves but next time?
Then, of course, there are the champagne houses. We are determined to explore these so that we can take our visitors to the best of them. However, we have not visited them yet.
We have visited Reims cathedral. Very impressive, and rather cold- dress warm, there is a lot of stone and huge ceilings. When we tried to tell our French friends they could not understand where we had been. "R-ee-m-s" we said. In the end they worked out we meant "wR-a-m". Silly us!