We arrived in France yesterday at the
Charles de Gaulle Airport then took an almost 2-2.5 hour train to
Poitiers completing more than 24 hours of travel starting in Makkah. Our uncle lives here, and has lived here for I think around 30 years. Me and my two sisters stayed at our cousin's place while my mom, dad and brother stayed at the uncle's. After arriving at around 9:30 pm, I went to sleep around 10:30 but finally slept at around 12 midnight (couldnt fall asleep, donno why, even though i was damn tired). Then I think I woke up around 8 am, got up from the bed at around 8:30. Then had a break of freshly baked and delicious chocolate filled croissant, some orange juice, raspberries and apricots. Then we (me, my sis' and cousin's daughter) went for a long walk through a park, fed ducks and took some awesome pics. Played a game called
Mölkky along with our brother-in-law who taught us how to play it. It was fun. Then we had lunch consisting of home baked awesome Pizza, boiled potatoes, homemade mayonnaise, cherry tomatoes, olives, some type of lettuce salad. Later on we made a dessert of strawberry cake (it ultimately had all the characteristics of a cake although it was made in a really different way), I helped too :D. Played a card game called
Jungle Speed. Then my parents and little brother arrived and we went for a tour of the area nearby. We went to a couple of old churches, a marketplace, a small mall, had some awesome chocolate ice-cream and then came back home. Played a game of
Quarto, later on another silly but fun game called Coyote. And then we had dinner on the lawn outside. Sausages were barbecued,
Ratatouille was prepared and the dessert was taken out (which by the way, was really really AWESOME).
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| Ducks coming towards us as we starting throwing in breadcrumbs |
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| Path thru the garden |
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| A view of the river |
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| An alley |
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| St Radegonde's Church |
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| Barbecuing the sausages |
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| The Dinner Table |
Summer is going on here but its cooler than even the winter back home in Makkah. The day is really long, starting with dawn at around 6 and ends with the dusk at around 11. But its cool, winds going on the whole time. Apparently the temperature drops down to 10° C at night and was around 25° during the day. There was a light drizzle for a few seconds too.
Overall had a really good and fun day! (:
Will be visiting some château tomorrow.
