A stay in France: Toussaint

Today was my first day back at work after the Toussaint holidays, it went surprisingly well, but anyway, I'll tell you about the holidays first.

The first week, as I mentioned in the last post, I spent at home. It was so lovely to see my friends, family and boyfriend, but also just lovely to be back on English soil again, with homecooked food (thanks mum), a comfy double bed, and to just be back to normal life for a while! I spent alot of time with my sister, as she was on half term too, which was lovely, I went to the pub quiz, which I have missed a lot since being in France!! We even managed to win the bonus round choccys and the music quiz (thanks to Hannah the music expert!). We also had the annual family firework night, which was good as I saw a lot of family at once. All in all, I'm glad I made the last minute decision to fly home, as I had a great week catching up with everyone.

I flew back on the Sunday afternoon, and arrived 2 hours early for my train from Biarritz to Pau. I saw that there was an earlier train, and so paid something like 6Euros to switch to this one. The customer service guy failed to tell me that actually even though the train left an hour or so earlier than my original train, it did stop for 40 minutes somewhere, and so in fact got me home at THE EXACT SAME TIME!!! Waste of 6Euros much?!

Anyway, I was happy to be back in the flat, and excited for Adam arriving the next day.

I spent the second week of the holidays showing Adam around Pau, and we also spent 2 days in Toulouse. It's so pretty there, the river at sunset was beautiful. We ate out every night except one when I made us fajitas, I'm not sure Adam enjoyed the experience of cooking in the hellish kitchen which after a week of not being cleaned was pretty filthy. I think we tried most of the restaurants in Pau: Mexican, Indian, Chinese, etc.! They were all very yummy!

I did make one faux pas in an Italian in Toulouse however. Somehow, I had a really dumb moment and forgot that 'thon' means tuna in French. I don't know what possesed me to think it was pork, as 'porc' is pork, so it's not that hard! But anyway, I assured Adam the pizza would be good, and it arrived with a mountain of tuna on - he was not impressed!! I blame the waitress for rushing me, and the fact that I had to read out all the ingrediants to Adam because they were in French, it's not my fault I got confused!!

Thankfully, I didn't make too many other errors, and we managed to eat well the rest of the week. It's a shock to have to start cooking again this week, but I can't keep eating out so much, I'll end up A) the size of a whale and B) skint!!

We spent a lot of time chilling this week, and stuff such as bowling with my friends. Managed to get through the whole 7th season of How I met your mother, which I've been waiting forever to watch - it was worth the wait!!

It was a brilliant week, I can't wait to have more visitors and show them round my adopted home :). It was sad saying by to Adam this morning, but it's not too long until Christmas, and I'm sure the time will fly, it has done so far!!

I'll leave you with a couple of pictures from the week, and I will try and update more regularly, I've just been pretty busy lately! And I'm too tired to write much more now, it's been a long day.