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True Easter Break

I have done it!
I spent a day without any computer/interweb interactivity!

My plan this Easter week end was to try and distance myself from a computer screen for at least a small period of time. It just so happened to be around 36 hours and man it felt great for doing so.

I love my time on the computer and trawling the tubes for new information, my recent addiction to Twitter has made this even more enjoyable but it gets to a stage were you are just a drone clicking for kicks.

To which I decided that I would go cold turkey and just switch the G5 off. My saving grace was the fact that the weather here in Suffolk has been awesome; temperatures reaching 18 degrees centigrade and clear blue skies. So it was easy to swap my mouse for a handlebar and finally get back out on my bike. In all the sun I managed to cover just over 130 miles and see some sights that I have never viewed before; the most notable was the Orwell Bridge near Ipswich.

Now I’m back at work, in front of another computer and catching up with the Flickr feeds and Twitter posts. The peace was nice while it lasted.

Long live the Poisson Rouge

“je suis un poisson rouge”
That is the limit of my French speaking skills. And I have no idea where I got that from!
Yet I’ve just come back from a weekend in France and some how I managed to get food and water. Ok I was with people who have a better understanding on the language than I do.

Around 4 years ago my parent’s bought a small converted barn/cottage in Northern France; just North of Boulogne Sur Mer. I have been over there a couple of times but since no renewing my passport for the last 3 years I’ve not left the comfort of the British Isles.

Now I have a new Passport I thought I had better stretch my legs and see what France had to offer. For one it was a beatiful day on Saturday, so our walk round Boulogne was very pleasant. Second was the awesome selection of Cheese’s on offer. Finally there was the idea of ‘getting away from it all’, worth the trip on it’s own.
It was only a quick trip, just a day to spend out and about and we spent it looking around Old Boulogne. New Boulogne was built outside the orginial town walls. Where as the old town is still in it’s roots inside the walls, along with the Catherdral.
I am not a religious person by any stretch but you can not ignore the buildings used as places of worship, coupled with that the French Architecture which in my mind is eyeopening at the best of times and I was lost for the afternoon. More photos from the day.

I’ve forgotten what it was like to spend a few days away from everything and just unwind. However it is now Monday and the phone is ringing…

welcome back

It has taken a while to sit down and write this post, but we are back from a extended holiday week end on the north Norfolk coast.
We were camping in a small village called East Runton, which is just outside Cromer.
Mental note if any one ever mentions the idea of camping on a Easter week end, tell them where to go; it’s bloody cold!