I said I'd do my france trip
I left on Sunday
I had never set an alarm on my phone before but chose to set one for 6:30
I woke up at 6:50 with a notification on my phone 'alarm failed'
thanks.
a morning I needed to be up and the phone alarm doesnt work
thank god my body woke up body clocks are awesome
but how the hell does an alarm fail!? Wont be using that again
so I was a bit behind and quickly got ready
I didnt have to be at adams til 8:30
at 8:20 adam sent me a txt "are you on your way yet?"
I said "nope" felt like saying "good morning to you too"
i could tell the txt was from his dad tho, his dad whittles
mum took me up their and embarrassingly told adam "look after her"
jesus
I knew the journey would be a killer
for me who cant sit still for long and aches when in the same position for a long time
don't think I quite appreciated how long Id be in that car for
we had one stop on the way to the tunnel
I fell asleep as much as I could as that way I can escape the pain basically
when we did stop I stood up and drank my tea and went outside and did some yoga
we got to the tunnel and I had no idea what to expect I really didnt
we got out the car and waited for our train to come so once again I was stretching out
when we could load our car onto the train I realised you could get out your car
whilst on the train so thats what I did, not much room at all and dirty
but I managed to do some yoga
Ive done yoga on the tunnel XD
we arrived on French turf and adam's dad wanted to take the coastal
road instead of the motorway
I didn't say anything but I also wasnt impressed that we were taking a longer route
i had dosed my self up with pain killers as it was
but we did stop off at the beach!
I practically ran down to it, got my only pair of shoes wet but who cares
you can see I enjoyed my brief experience on the beach
we were only their half hour if that really
then it was back in the car for a lil while to the place we were staying
their its called a Gite pronounced jeet
we got out the car and saw the gite we were staying in
looked alright
had a small field attached with swings and a swing ball, small patio
facing it was fields with cows in
we were in the middle of no where
we were greeted by the owners who were english and we were told the other two families sharing the gite were also english, we only met one family - an elderly couple
so we didnt have roudy neighbours luckily
our bedroom
i found it quite amusing that both bedrooms had single beds!
so adam's parents would have to sleep separately, I got my own bed!
dont always like sharing with adam he takes up too much room
we stayed at the place for a while i think it was around 3ish we got their for
the guy who owned it said he'd take us to a proper French village restaurant
and we could walk back from their
that would be at 7:30
so I had time to kill
i went outside did some yoga, went on the swings and played swing ball all by myself of course as i needed chill out time but adam did come and play swing ball with me, i beat him hands down as i had many years playing swing ball during my caravan holidays I had to always play against dad and he is brutal when it comes to beating his kids at games XD
we went for food
the journey in the car was quick
the restaurant was a bit of a culture shock to me...
everything was french
i know thats obviously but I guess i was arrogant in thinking id be able to understand some things.
No everything was French
waiter was french
the menu in total french
everything was so difficult
adams parents helped me choose food and ordered on my behalf
they can get by with french
The food was expensive but very good quality
starter was potato soup with french bread
main was chicken and mushroom
dessert was ice cream
it was good and cus it was quality over quantity I wasnt overly full
we left there to walk home
it. was. freezing.
we'd had a lovely warm day and now you could see all the stars and all the heat of the day had gone
i was so cold i had my fleece on, adams fleece and his dads
still shivered all the way home which was a 15 min walk home
i got back and ran a hot bath
that night i couldnt sleep
i went to bed, peeled back the duvet to reveal a shallow mattress
i got in and 2 mins later i was out
no way could i sleep on that in those 2 mins my hip hurt
not enough padding
i told adam and i slept on top of the sheets and he covered me in fleeces as we didnt have a blanket, so to be expected to sleep in a strange place with only fleeces covering me was a big ask
i hardly slept
i was up until 2:30am and woke up at 6:45
you know youre up early when the cows in the field arent even out
i got up and paced round the kitchen until in the end i grabbed the keys and went outside
it was cold
i came back inside and felt warmer
adams mum got up and made tea at 7:30
we had ordered a french breakfast to arrive at 9am
i didnt want it if im honest but joined in as it was adams 27th birthday
he opened his cards and liked my doodle
the breakfast came
the guys had ordered bacon baguette and id ordered french bread and jam his mum had ordered pastries basically. This basket came full of these pastries and bread, i had a bit of bread and called it quits as i didnt want all that, so the guys helped and we wrapped the rest up for another time.
we got ready to go out, heading for a market his dad wanted to see
we got to the town which i think was called Le Touquette
no market
no people
nothing open
to say how close we were to the summer peak season there was just nothing
turns out the market was only on during the summer
so we decided the hit the beach
all the time i was mulling stuff over in my head
my biggest worry was if i would have memory of this journey
i forget a lot of memories and i didnt want to forget stuff
adam kept asking me all sodding morning "are you alright?"
in the end i snapped at him "yes!! im alright stop asking me!"
doing my head in as it was all he said to me all morning
nothing else. not conversation. no laughs
i talked more with his parents
the beach was lovely and the sand was hard to walk through but good
i found so many dead crabs!
i did enjoy it
i took of my socks and shoes straight away and walked through everything
his mum took off hers and joined me
the men went and walked in the less deep wet sand until eventually
they decided to join us
i told adam "its about time, what you gonna be like when we go Tenerife? you're gonna be on the side path whilst im in the beach?"
he said "no i will join you"
hope he bloody does
when id been walking alone with his mum said "adam is more reserved than most"
i said "yeah surprises me he goes out with me"
she said "yes but i believe it does him good"
i felt like saying "he doesnt do me good he doesnt bring anything to my life"
but i was good and didnt say it
after the beach we walked to a cafe and it was all french again
i had cheese on toast, more bread i know
good tho actually
luckily the mini golf his dad really wanted to play was shut so i got off the hook there
we walked round the town and i got an ice cream white chocolate flavour
it was huge! one scoop was the size of my fist
i felt truly sick afterwards but enjoyed it
we drove away to a super market and then to the place we were staying
I enjoyed doing yoga bare foot in the field whilst listening to my ipod
then i played pool with everyone in the games room
i won
dont know how but i did
we ate chocolate cake his mum made and brought with her
so much sugar and it makes pain worse
that night for food, adam got to choose as it was his birthday dinner
he chose to go Buffalo Grill
and american style beef place
i thought id be ok here that there would be some english
no
and we passed one Buffalo Grill on the way to the beach but instead we drove further out just to go to a branch they usually use. the point of that was lost on me. why not try somewhere new?
the Buffalo Grill was mainly beef
i hate beef
so i ordered chicken and chips
ate some and gave the rest to adam
we went back to the Gite and I had a bath and tried to scrub my very dirty feet
then i did feel tired as id hardly slept and walked loads
so i thought id try and sleep and luckily i did drop off
i didnt say good night to anyone as i didnt think id actually sleep
i woke up a few times to sort fleeces out
then i woke up at 6:50am and got up
I got ready I was always one of the first too get ready
i never bothered with adam in the morning as hes just an unfun zombie
to be honest i didnt have much fun with him at all the whole holiday
so serious and dull
i pushed away affections as i dont want them
and i didnt bother trying to have fun with him
it was like he didnt enjoy being there
So we were gonna go see another market on tuesday
we got there and there was a market yet
but it was small and crap
it was just the same rubbish they sell here! honestly i could have been in the UK
it was the same
i didnt buy a thing no one did
we walked to another mini golf to find that too was shut but cool decorations
massive cat
originally adams dad said "we'll eat breakfast out"
so i took my medication on an empty stomach, i had breakfast biscuits with me but thought id leave them if we were eating out
did we eat? did we bob
i felt like throwing up as i doubled up pain killers
i looked awful
just because his dad changes his mind like the wind
we went onto a cafe and it was so loud with french people
so over whelming
i hated it
i had a tea and we walked back to the car
and went to try another seaside town
we got out the car and saw a chip van
his dad went up to it and the guy said "we open in 15 minutes"
now what i thought would happen here was that we''d sit on the sea wall for 15 mins
but no his dad got up and said we'd find a cafe to go sit in
so we did this huge trek with the wind really picking up
no cafes open, nothing open
so in the end we walked allllll the way back to the chip van and ordered chip baguette i did by no means want this at all and the size of it was crazy
everyone said how mad it was
cant even see the baguette for chips!! i ate a few chips and 2 bites of baguette and said i didnt want it cus i didnt i dont like that kinda food so adam was the only one to finish his and he made a start on mine his dad called him a pig
i thought it was greedy
his parents couldnt finish and usually they eat everything
so his dad said we'd walk down the beach path to see seals
the wind was unbelievable
i could see the sand gathering on my cardigan
i couldnt see for sand
my legs felt like they wouldnt carry me anymore
id had enough and told adam id had enough and i might get the keys from your dad to go back to the car so when i said this his mum gladly said she'd turn round
the seals were there but so far away they just looked like rocks
i wasnt bothered about seeing them i felt like crap
so me and his mum walked by
and the male egos walked down still
me and his mum waited in the car i felt better for being in the quiet and still air
adam and his dad came back and he showed me photos of the seals but he didnt get very close so i dont think they walked much further than us if im honest
his dad said did we want to go on the beach?
was he for real!? i couldnt see for sand and my legs couldnt carry me on pavement never mind on sand so i said i wasnt going
we walked back along the pier and we brought ice cream i had kinder flavour it was good
then we walked back to the car
and drove back to the Gite and ate more cake from his mum
each day i had ice cream and cake and biscuits
so much sugar and pain
not good for my body or mind
i just felt fat constantly
constantly fat i hated myself, still do
that night we'd been to the super market and picked up
pizza, mini pizza and bread and just had that
i help prepare the dinner, served it, and washed up
adam did nothing
didnt even offer to help
i said in front of his parents to him
"this is why i could never live with you, you do nothing"
i told his dad he's too soft and thats why he does nothing because he knows he can get away with it. I could no believe how he did nothing.
after dinner his dad said to me in front of adam who was on his phone
"shoes on Jo"
i did i was asked
i said "where we going?"
his dad said "recycling"
so i had to carry rubbish down the stairs to outside to the bins
i did not mind. i do mind helping at all as his parents have done so much for me
but they get adam to do nothing
he did nothing to help all holiday
mummy and daddy will do it
its embarrassing if you ask me
i hardly slept that night i was struggling mentally and physically
so i was tired and up early
i was ready to leave
we went to a supermarket to do the booze run
hardy got any time there as his dad was whittling about getting to the tunnel on time
we were a whole hour early for the tunnel so i had a lot of waiting around to do
wasnt impressed
but its hard to say anything when its not your family
you have to go with the flow all the time
so we travelled back
i did as much yoga as i could and got out as much as i could
slept were i could
just to get through it
was happy to be back around english speaking people
id had enough of french and french people
his parents dropped me off home for 5pm
i shattered
i spoke to mum for a bit
sat with Oz
showered and watched task master and happily went back to my comfy bed
that was france
all i brought back with me was halloween decorations from super market, oreo chocolate for my brother to try and a coin you can get from the 2 Euro Machines and theyre all different i chose a motorbike
im glad of the experience
as it was an experience
what i learned from the holiday was several things
1. its hard being with someone elses family
2. i need to learn the basic language for Tenerife
3. adam is not fun or help
4. i dont think i want to be in a relationship anymore
5. i dont want to return to france
6. im not as fit and healthy as i thought i was
7. id like to handle euros and not leave it to adam and his parents
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