Happy New Year.........

Well it's 2013!!!! how the year of 2012 has flown it only seems 5 mins ago that my elder sister was here in a warm and sunny February then in a cold and very wet June I was in Paris with younger sister....Weddings, Golden jubilees and the Olympics all gave extra bank holidays which in turn gave Bob longer breaks here in France.

We have had a good Christmas quite but to our liking, plenty of good food some actually cooked and made by me, every roast potato was golden fluffy and crisp my only catastrophe being one batch of Yorkshire pudds ......flat as pancakes!!

Molly has had some nice long walks with us in tow and we had a lovely trip to Bordeaux The city's nicknames are "La perle d'Aquitaine", "La Belle Endormie" (Sleeping Beauty) in reference to the old center which had black walls due to pollution. But today we can say that Bordeaux is awake. In fact, a part of the city, Le Port de La Lune, was almost completely renovated. We are planning a longer trip later in the new year.