Bonjour!
We spent the first part of Tuesday in the beautiful seaside town of Les Sables d'Olonne. It is very well-known in the Vendée region and was also familiar to some of our students who took part in the trip last year. They seemed thrilled to be back and remembered the central square and all the glaces and gaufres that they had enjoyed in the sun!
This year, however, we went directly to the beach and enjoyed an hour of paddling and relaxing in the sun (encore des glaces!). Life on the French exchange is tough!
After a short walk around the Lac de Tanchet and lunch with a view across the lake, we made our obligatory supermarket stop at LeClerc. Here students bought an array of traditionally French keepsakes and souvenirs du voyage such as boules, French novels, recipe books and board games... as well as inevitable footballs and Xbox vouchers ("the receipt is in French Miss").
Perhaps the most novel experience of the day was a trip in the afternoon to feed the deer (les dains). One of the French teachers and her husband kindly invited us to their private deer park and gave our students a chance to see them in a natural environment. Lots of bread tempted some of the deer to venture very close to our kids and there was a lot of excitement and photos (not of the deer; selfies and snaps of students pretending to have antlers, obviously).
On arriving back in La Roche, a few eager students had a quick look around Place Napoléon, the main town square, and a final crêpe, before heading off with their French partners for the evening.
A busy but rewarding day.
A très bientôt!
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