So far we've found that what stands out in Emily and Georgia's minds are events like visiting the Tower of London and hearing its many gruesome stories, hearing about the life of Corrie Ten Boom at her home/museum, and exploring museums like the historic dockyards and the museum of design in gent, Belgium. What doesn't seem to impress them is scenery and the daily routine of finding food.
As a result, when we were planning for our 12 year old cousin guest, we figured we'd better make sure there was a good dose of weird museum events on the list. Two hours from our apartment in Marseillan, is the city of Toulouse, home of Airbus, the commercial plane builders and the cite d'espace, an extensive space museum. We didn't get to see airplanes being built but we did walk through the MIR space station, watch a French IMax film about space, and experiment with cool museum technology.
On our way out of town we were treated to intersection panhandling acrobatics. Cool. On the way home from Toulouse we stopped at the medieval walled town of Carcassone for dinner and so that the kids could stock up on medieval weapons like cross bows and bow and arrow sets.
A couple of days later we headed north of town to hike through a cave and try to remember which are stalagmites and which are stalactites. (If it helps, stalagMites monter up, while stalacTites tomber down).
In addition to seeing lots of cool cave formations, we had the pleasure of lunching by the Devil's bridge and walking through the nearby town of St. Guilhem le Desert, definitely one of the most charming French towns we've come across.
The Sunday before the guests left, we finally ventured out on the boat. It was too windy to go across the etang to Sete, as we had hoped, so we just motored up to the first lock on the canal du midi. This gave Ben a great opportunity to drive the boat.
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| The Mir space station at Toulouse |
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| Intersection performers in Toulouse |
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| Super astronauts |
A couple of days later we headed north of town to hike through a cave and try to remember which are stalagmites and which are stalactites. (If it helps, stalagMites monter up, while stalacTites tomber down).
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| Funky lighting in the Grotte de Clamouse |
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| Stalagmites or stalactites? |
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| Pretty street in St Guilhem le Desert |
In addition to seeing lots of cool cave formations, we had the pleasure of lunching by the Devil's bridge and walking through the nearby town of St. Guilhem le Desert, definitely one of the most charming French towns we've come across.
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| The Pont du Diable |
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| Captain Benjamin |
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| The crew of the good boat Jason |
March 19 2014
ReplyDeleteHi Emily
I'm sorry I didn't talk lately but I've been in BC for the past 10 days!
I hope you're having a great time. BC was really fun too. We went kayaking and swimming and saw a billion seals and swans. And there are flowers blooming already! I went with daddy and felix and Hilary and we saw Tomio and Samie, but I forgot to mention you to them.
What have you been doing? Have you made any friends there?
Write back soon!
Zoe
(Hi...finally caught up on your blog...hope y'all are enjoying life back on the boat. We are still experiencing winter here but it seems as though spring may be coming. For April Fools yesterday, Zoe and I planted real flowers in the snow at Mulberry School. Take care, Leann)