I really should be working...

Categories: days-out

Date: 30 March 2010 07:42:52

I've got lots to prepare - this week's Collège lessons (several will be on work experience, so I'm doing some more "fun" stuff with the remainders), tomorrow's lesson with the children, and with my Estate Agent, as well as doing my French homework. I've bought a new scheme for the children: called Bingo! the main characters include the Loch Ness Monster. I've come to the end of the scheme I was using (" Methode d'Anglais - Decouvre l'anglais en voyageant avec Alice et Jeremy") which was good, apart from the annoyingly patronising voice of the lady giving instructions on the CD. The next level up on this scheme is too advanced for Clèment, so I'm taking a sideways step with Bingo! We'll see how it goes.

Anyway, I'm not working because I want to show some pictures of the walk I did yesterday. It was great - I took my lunch with me, ate it overlooking the plain, and then had a walk around a hilltop. Serendipidously I managed to find a way to make the there-and-back walk that I'd planned be a circular walk, which is much more preferable! I shall enjoy doing it again later in the year to see how things have changed.

So, this is the view from where I had lunch. This is across the Plain de Limagne - the hills you can see in the distance are the Monts de la Madeleine, which are "our" hills. The town just below is Riom, or possibly Menetron, which is a suburb of Riom.

This is a Llama - which, of course, you expect to see on your walk in the French countryside.

Signs of spring:

Sorry, for that last one you need to lie on your side again. (I will work it out one day!)

Then a view of Puy de Dome - the mountain that dominates Clermont Ferrand - and a view of the city from the same place.

There! I hope you liked them.

Now: au boulot! (Tr: Get off your a*se and do some work!)

ETA: When I published this all the descriptions went a bit haywire and ended up in the wrong place. If it does it again you'll have to work it out for yourself - I've already spent longer than I meant to doing this!!)