Pascal and Catherine

 

            

           I had a very long ride today from Le Gallet to the Chambly area. However the wind was on my back and side most of the time. I was on a major highway that was quite busy although it was Sunday. There was one very long uphill that took me over half an hour to walk up. I thought that I was walking up to heaven!

    My  first PARIS sign

        I just had to stop and look back and take this photo of the lineup of people  on a Sunday  morning waiting to buy bread.

Approaching the village where my host's live. It looks like mostly newer houses on the outskirts.

       

      I don't know the corrent translation but to my mind it says- a village in great debt.

      When I arrived Pascal and Catherine were not home. I took the time to clean and lubricate Silver and check her tire pressure. I checked with the neighbour to make sure that I had the correct address. Then I looked up where the closet store was and bought some food gifts of strawberries, chocolate bar and nougat and pastry. I went to a little Square and sat on a bench and did a Facebook and new route for tomorrow and tried to What's App Caroline. 

Pascal and Catherine were out for a bicycle ride and I received a text from them later which made me feel better.

     Catherine who is 60 and works at the townhall,using her pressure cooker to make the stew

      Pascal who is 63 and retired from being a technician for a big military  company helping, helping in the kitchen

     A delicious stew

    Strawberries and whipping cream

    We enjoyed a long delicious evening meal together.

Catherine checking out my blog. She has it set translated into French. I will have to try to read it that way to improve my French.

From Aurélien and Manon in Amiens to Arnaud in Le Gallet

 

Thank you  Aurélien and Manon for everything- the meals and bedroom and help for Paris.

May God bless you both.

                          

A  canal in Amiens

 

I stopped for a snack and this police car hid between the bushes to try to catch some speeders.

Another rest and stretch stop by a cemetery

The town hall of Le Gallet.

 

Arnaud met me with a sunflower in hand. He is a farmer , a teacher of agriculture and marketing and a father , cook and housekeeper as well. 

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I had lunch and supper there prepared by Arnaud who speaks a little English.

His daughter, Lucie had her twin girl friends over.

Valentin , the son spent most of the afternoon with me practicing  his English. He is 20 and going to college for Communication this fall.

Valentin likes art and took some clay and we made these bowls. Alas when he put them into the oven to bake his own broke. I put Mary Ann and Canada on mine and gifted it to Arnaud. 

The girls kept busy by painting the bedroom. They were very shy to try any English.

   My English student!

      Arnaud worked outside.

In the afternoon we went for a walk and saw his sunflower field. He also does wheat. He has about 100 hectares. We were going to go farther to see his breeding horses but it started to rain and we got soaked.

                                 By the sunflowers.

 

The girls worked with the clay later.

Myself, twins Léa and Julie and Lucie all of whom are 15 years old.

Valentin and myself

Thank you Arnaud for a wonderful day with your family. May God bless you and make your work easier as the years go by.

From Adrien and Mathilde in Saint Omér to Keverly in Azincourt Saint Omér

 

I had lots of hills today and bad weather. 

I was bicycling through rolling farm land. I had to get off my bike 4 times to walk the hills.

Having lunch

Right next to my lunch spot a family was setting up a carousel. 

Wild flowers

Lots of Jesus statues

Finally I reached Azincourt

Azincourt was the site of abig battle

I reached the gated yard of my Welcome to My Garden host Keverly. A dog came to the gate but she had noted on the site that the dogs were friendly. Finally Jordan hm, her boyfriend came and opened the gate.

Jordan and Keverly who is a babysitter or nanny.

They have bought this place and came from Lillie in February.

Her father, Patrick and sister, Keefany

Planting tomatoes

Watching the work

Keverly, Patrick, Keefany and Jordan

It was quite a Google translation day as they are French and I got to practise my French.