Wednesday 16th April

Last night we arranged to meet the Lille assistances and cycle to the beach. We all hired bikes (only €2 for the day) and headed off with a picnic. Laura had been told it would take about 30 mins but we managed to lost a couple of times so about an hour later we finally arrived at the quite chilly beach, with no accidents. There was one point where we cycled through an avenue of trees anf it felt just like we were in the Sound of Music. And all the way cars and lorries where hooting at us in a friendly way. Seeing 13 bikes cycling in group must have been quite a sight. So we spent a couple of hours on the beach, and about 30 mins of that in a cafe warming up. The wind was freezing. In the cafe I the song ‘Stay With me ‘Till Dawn’ was played which is a Wildflower song. Unfortunately I was in the toilets at the time and couldn’t hear the voices properly but I text Sam straight away anyway. I’m annoyed it came on at that time. I would’ve been able to tell straight away who was singing if I was in the cafe. On the cycle back we managed to annoyed several french men by cycling through their boules game - oops!! And I very nearly had a run in with a post. That night, Mary, Laura and I met up with Lauren, Claire, Nick, the American guy and the nameless brit for a fondue. We went to this amazing, but wacky restaurant which served the wine in baby bottles, gave all you can eat baked potatoes and bread, and served the two balls of ice-cream for pudding differently depending on if you are male or female. Boobs (with chocolate drops) or a penis (with half a banana). Mary, who asked for more potatos even though there were some sitting right next to her on the table started a long-running joke with the waiter who gave her a raw potato to take home with her. And Lauren managed to persuade him to let her keep the baby bottle as a souvenir. I found out Nick knows the chicken roundabout near Bungay and Claire has been to a Harleston, although we think it might have been the one near Needham Market. It was a brilliant evening, which ended in some games of pool at a local pub.