Friday 28th March

This evening we had a gathering at Liz’ house, us four and Mika and Charlie. I decided to bring the pud so made some chocolate crunch, bought some meringue for Grace and took a few strawberries. At 6pm Mika and Charlie picked me and Grace up from Graces flat - Mika was bringing two guitars so he had his car, and we headed to Route de Darnétal, which is the road Liz lives on. I started getting a bit suspicious when we went on the dual carriage way and then I saw signs for Darnétal. The town! Yep, we were heading out of Rouen. No, not the town, we said, the road, and had to turn around. By this point we had actually reached Darnétal. So thats why they looked very confused when we said we could walk to Liz’ in 10-15 minutes! Anyway, we eventually arrived at the right place and ran out of the car into the flat - it was pouring with rain. I finally met the frog Liz has to look after. It is tiny, about the size of my thumb. Then followed a really good evening of acoustic and electric guitar (I learnt how to play an ‘A’ chord), a delicious meal of garlic and pistachio rice and stir fried veg with ginger. The french aren’t used to ginger at all and Mika didn’t like it. According to Grace you can’t even get ginger beer here. Which was then followed by pud - the chocolate crunch was loved by all, and more guitar. All in all a good time was had by all.