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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 5h

I think it’s usually better to leave menus untranslated because translators invariably get stuff hilariously wrong. Pictured here is an extract from a menu where we ate last week in France. I think the term ‘sausage’ would have...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures Bollock of Bullock would not be my style. I’d hate watching a lady friend chewing on testicles. It would make me nervous.

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (86111) • Daytona Beach, Florida 5h

Even though things worked out in favor of the passengers a Ryanair plane crashed into a barrier on the runway landing from London at a Greek airport. Then passengers were finally disembarked, the plane inspected, and left in...

ryanair hits fence while landing

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Fiacre Banks @RasmaSandra Oh they wouldn’t know quality if it hit them in the face. Maximum profit for minimum investment. Just like the airline I flew home with from France yesterday.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 18 Jun

It’s good to be back on my own toilet and in my own bed. We flew out of Rennes at 16.00 hours, got to Dublin two hours later then drove up to lovely Larne. Not since the 70s have I flown in such a tatty airplane - that was on...

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Fiacre Banks @ambiepam And if ever you’re going to need a toilet it’s during a troubling flight on a questionable airplane.

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (356320) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jun

Tomorrow, we have two functions to attend. Hopefully, we’ll be able to cope with so much activity on the one day. In the morning, we’ll attend a play called 21 Hearts. It tells the story of Vivian Bullwinkel, one...

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Fiacre Banks @JudyEv I reluctantly watched a holocaust film, Sarah’s Key I think, and was shocked that it was filmed in the building where my brother lived in Paris. The building really was in the Jewish quarter and we had spent so many happy times there not knowing what...

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 18 Jun

It’s good to be back on my own toilet and in my own bed. We flew out of Rennes at 16.00 hours, got to Dublin two hours later then drove up to lovely Larne. Not since the 70s have I flown in such a tatty airplane - that was on...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Not a lot of options between Ireland and rural France. Not a plane for the nervous flyer.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 16 Jun

Best meal so far this trip and that’s for both Greece and France. Unfortunately the trip ends on Wednesday. To say that I enjoyed a Magret du Canard in the shadow of Bayeux Cathedral this lunch time would be a serious case of...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev His wife is 15 drive away but doesn’t keep well. Kids live 300 miles away in Paris with very demanding jobs. Since they’ve just moved to Bayeux they know no-one. So I hope to get back in the autumn

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30664) • Lichfield, England 14 Jun

I went to the big Tesco again on Wednesday. I got rid of the soft recycle as usual, and went up on the lift. The first thing I got was an Artists and Illustrators magazine. Then I got 2 bottles of water. Then I went and got myself...

shopping

tesco

groceries

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton More spacious than ASDA and no irritating music.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 15 Jun

It was good to sit in the late afternoon sunshine behind Bayeux cathedral and enjoy a Ricard before dinner arrived: a piece of steak cooked au point. Not only so, but the waiter had the good sense to hold off with the food...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev The bomb arrived in the form of the bill, but at least dessert had been enjoyed first so I died happy. Impoverished, but happy.

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Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30664) • Lichfield, England 14 Jun

I went to the big Tesco again on Wednesday. I got rid of the soft recycle as usual, and went up on the lift. The first thing I got was an Artists and Illustrators magazine. Then I got 2 bottles of water. Then I went and got myself...

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Fiacre Banks @sharonelton I quite like it.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 14 Jun

Remind me please, why does money have to be squandered celebrating the King’s birthday? Oh yes, I remember now, it’s because we haven’t bothered putting that particular family in its rightful place. We just let them go on thinking...

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Fiacre Banks @thehorse I do believe so. Mine’s on January 5 but I don’t want anything quite as showy.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 14 Jun

I took my brother out in his wheelchair today for lunch. It’s only when you do that sort of thing that you discover how well or otherwise a town caters for wheelchair users. Bayeux is reasonable although there are a lot of cobbled...

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Fiacre Banks @ineeddentures He loved getting out. Hasn’t been out for a few months because his wife’s not able and his children live 300 miles away. He (and she) just moved to Bayeux so know no-one. Hope to come again in October. Must bring my own shock absorbers.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 13 Jun

Bayeux got a really good soaking tonight when an almighty thunderstorm broke at about 8 pm, just as we found a restaurant to eat and shelter in. it was a really good downpour following on the heels of a torrid afternoon. During...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Flutterbies they are indeed, and I do believe they illuminate at night.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 13 Jun

Bayeux got a really good soaking tonight when an almighty thunderstorm broke at about 8 pm, just as we found a restaurant to eat and shelter in. it was a really good downpour following on the heels of a torrid afternoon. During...

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Fiacre Banks @lindaohio It’s heartbreaking, isn’t it?

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 12 Jun

I’m up and about right now at 4.30 on an excellent morning because there’s a rooster crowing nearby. These noises of nature bother me not, but if the noise were generated by human lack of consideration (music, cars, talking etc) I...

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Fiacre Banks @ladyduck I find France to be more calm than 40 years ago when I lived here.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 12 Jun

I’m up and about right now at 4.30 on an excellent morning because there’s a rooster crowing nearby. These noises of nature bother me not, but if the noise were generated by human lack of consideration (music, cars, talking etc) I...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura And it wasn’t even first class!

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 12 Jun

I’m up and about right now at 4.30 on an excellent morning because there’s a rooster crowing nearby. These noises of nature bother me not, but if the noise were generated by human lack of consideration (music, cars, talking etc) I...

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Fiacre Banks @judyev in a 1st class carriage from Paris to St Malo last year a man started typing on his laptop, all clickety clack. I found it very irritating and another man told him not to as this was first class. He put his laptop away!

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 12 Jun

This little house we’ve rented in Bayeux (of tapestry fame) is a wee gem. It’s just a 20 minute walk into the centre of town where the nursing home my brother resides in is - that’s why we’re here. The house is in a hyper calm...

view from hotel in rennes

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Fiacre Banks @judyev Very narrow streets in places - wouldn’t fancy trying to navigate them in a motorhome.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 9 Jun

I woke in the early hours this rainy morning from a very bizarre dream in which I had experienced two very productive episodes of explosive diarrhoea. The dream was so vivid that when I woke I was a bit reluctant to check if...

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Fiacre Banks @fleura “weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning” Psalm 30. I rejoiced in the morning.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 9 Jun

I woke in the early hours this rainy morning from a very bizarre dream in which I had experienced two very productive episodes of explosive diarrhoea. The dream was so vivid that when I woke I was a bit reluctant to check if...

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Fiacre Banks @ladyduck Her hair is quite something! I quite like her but her sister was easier to listen to.

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Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13770) • Ireland 9 Jun

I woke in the early hours this rainy morning from a very bizarre dream in which I had experienced two very productive episodes of explosive diarrhoea. The dream was so vivid that when I woke I was a bit reluctant to check if...

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Fiacre Banks @jessy3236 Glad to hear you woke up.

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