hey girls (and boys) hey
as luck, and i like to think karma would have it, the day we returned from our summer holiday at ile d'oleron (the only place we had to wear jeans so far) to angouleme the nice weather came out to play. this was, i think, natures way of telling us that our 3 month run of near perfect weather for whtever we wanted to do was perhaps coming to an end.
anyway, luckily angouleme is a really cute town so the sun meant we could actually get out and see it on a couple of days, while we spent the est of the time chilling and generally taking every oppotunity to sleep in to 11 or 12 without feeling like we were completely wasting the day.
we spent the first few days back at angouleme with manon and her various friends (especially the lovely pauline, who iona mentioned in the last blog), which meant iona got to see a couple of her friends from exchange, and that i finally got to meet them after seeing photos and hearing stories for the past 2 and a half years! another highlight of the days with manon was ou exciting tip to the doctor because iona had a throat infection, which also resulted in a demonstration of my ever present mozzie bites and consequently a bag full of medicine to be split between iona and myself. the french (apparently a nation of hypochondriacs) really do love distributing drugs.
the second half of our week back we went to stay with ionas old host family which was also really good. her old host mum collette is absolutely gorgeous, and went to extraordinary lengths to try and make sure we had a nice time. a particular example of this being when we mentioned it was a shame not to have been able to go to bordeaux and she drove us there the very next day.
it was fantastic as expected, full of amazing old buildings and churches and this enormous park in which iona and i rampaged, once almost accidentally sitting on a woman sleeping on a park bench, but avoiding the obvious embarassment that would bring by noticing her at the very last minute...
while the town of angouleme is maybe not as exciting as places like paris, we really did have a really really nice time there. even though we're not into comic books.
much love,
vivienne (and iona)
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
ALSO, as you may or may not have noticed, iona and i write pretty much exactly the same way, so now seems to be an appropriate time to tell you that we have pretty much become the same person. don't say we didnt warn you...
