22.10 - Day 281 - Cabannes, FRA

Tuesday 22nd October - Cabannes, France (Day 281)

Seb’s parcel of schoolwork also included a skipping rope and the time has come to start using it - it’s a surprisingly hard technique to teach but at least Seb is willing, not least because he can claim it as ‘schoolwork’ to try and get out of other subjects he is less inclined to do (writing), or at least postpone. 

Orange Grove School had tried to teach some usable Italian - asking for pizza or gelato, so taking a leaf out of their book, I try and teach Sienna the most important French phrase I know: 

Je voudrais une baguette si vous plait. 

She tried it out in the boulangerie which is a few minutes walk from our Loustaudemamet house and earns smiles from the baker. 

Apart from school, it’s a day off so we wander to the football court I’d spied in the village where Seb starts playing with another young French kid, while Sienna does skipping of her own. 

A quiet day in the French countryside.