Buses, trains and planes, à bientôt Pau!

As it's now officially the holidays, I thought I'd give you an update as I have plenty of time (not that I'm enormously busy any other time!).

Originally, I was going to stay in Pau for the whole of the 2 week holidays, but as my flatmates and friends all seem to be jetting off or going home for at least a few days, I started to get really jealous! So, on Saturday morning, after discussing at length with my sister, I booked a last minute flight home, and I mean last minute, as the flight was Sunday evening!! The flight was from Biarritz to Manchester, which worked out perfectly for getting a lift home, as it's only around a 50 minute drive. So, bearing in mind my flight wasn't until 5:45pm, I left the flat at 11:30am to walk to the train station, a 50 minute walk or 10 minute bus ride, but since the lazy French don't start their Sunday bus service until 1pm, I had to walk, otherwise I'd miss my train. The train journey was around 1 hour 40, which was fine, and then I had to catch a bus from Biarritz train station to the airport, which is fine, except the fact that I didn't know if the bus was going to turn up or not, as according to the website it wasn't running!! Thankfully, it did turn up, otherwise I'd have had another 40 minute walk!!

Surprisingly, I wasn't feeling nervous as I usually do with flying, especially on my own! And after a boring wait in the tiny airport that doesn't even have a duty free (shocking right?!) we took off on time. The view was amazing as we took off, first the sea, and then I got to watch the sun set from the sky, amazing! 

I've probably bored you enough with my travel, so I'll just say I made it home safe and it's great to be here and see everyone, looking forward to the week ahead :)

Other than travelling home, I guess I should talk a bit about my week in Pau, what I can remember anyway! I had a good week at work, with a lot of positive classes. One girl gave me a note thanking me for coming to help them with English, which was really sweet! I was wished 'bonnes vacances' many times, and I still can't get used to the southern French accent, where they actually pronounce the 'es' on the end of words such as 'bonnes'. It's pretty strange after being taught not to pronounce it for years and then suddenly everyone does pronounce it!! Again, I better stop before I bore you all with my linguistics talk, otherwise this really is going to turn in to a boring blog post!

We went to a Halloween pub quiz on Wednesday, which was fun, even if I didn't know a single answer! And on Thursday it was Beth's 21st, so we went out for a lovely meal, I ate a delicious burger and was brave enough to try a mussel. It was surprisingly ok, don't think I'd choose it for a meal as they look so disgusting, it took me 10 minutes to dare to try it haha. Then on Friday we had a night out for her birthday too. We pre-gamed in the hallway, until we were told of by a security man, which was annoying as we were only talking and playing a bit of music, and it was only 10pm!!! So then we moved to the kitchen and finally caught the last bus in to town. It's a shame that by the time we got to the bar I was soaking as it was torrential raining! The highlight of the night was definitely buying Pringles from the bar, Yum! I have a very attractive photo of me and Beth making duck beaks with them, but unfortunately I can't share it with you as I'm on my dad's laptop and don't have the pictures. But if you can't wait to see it check my Facebook, it's there haha!

Saturday was spent, as I mentioned earlier, booking planes and trains, and then going to town to print off my boarding pass, it's such a pain not having a printer! 

And now here I am, at home! Looking forward to spending the day with my sister today :). I'll update more about my week at home at the end of the week.

xxx