La vie ailleurs

It’s a plan, a plan which may be a long time coming, but can you picture it:

a gîte in the South of France, good food and wine, nice weather, working at home, socialising, speaking ze Frrrench again!

I’ve been back in the UK 5 years or so now, but France still beckons, and every time I go there I wonder why I left (despite les manifs, les greves, la circulation, …). Don’t get me wrong, Cheltenham is lovely, and I’m really enjoying my new job, but France has always been my home from home, there’s always been some sort of link there.

I’ve got a 4-day-weekend this weekend, because my work give me Tuesday off as well as the Bank Holiday, and I’d love to get in the car and drive to Dover to get the ferry to France. It’s nice to be able to be spontaneous like that. I won’t though (traffic will be murder on a rainy English Bank Holiday!) but that’s OK because there are loads of things to do here this weekend (and France will still be there another weekend when the Brits are staying home):

• Cheese Rolling (Cooper’s Hill)
• The Charlton Kings Festival (Cheltenham)
• The Lord Mayor’s Parade (Oxford)
• The summer Bank Holiday Weekend at the Racecourse (Cheltenham)

to name but a few, for more ideas of what’s on in Gloucestershire see:

http://www.exploregloucestershire.co.uk/page235.asp

So, in the long term I’m thinking about une vie ailleurs but in the bang up-to-date present I’m going to make the most of what’s on offer ici et maintenant!

A plus!

~ by harrietdg on May 24, 2008.