The sun joins La Giraudiere on our day trip to La Rochelle!

This Friday morning we all woke up bright and early for our three-weekly day trip! Firstly however, we had to say our goodbyes to Hugh who has been here for the past five weeks working hard on various jobs; he will be making his journey back to England this afternoon.

We set off towards La Rochelle, stopping at Pons on the way for a coffee before carrying on towards our destination. On arrival, we headed down to the Bus de Mer which would take us across the see to other side of La Rochelle for a spot of lunch. Afterwards was free time, so Paul, Mark, Gayle and Derrick decided to walk back instead of taking the Bus de mer to see some other parts of La Rochelle while John, Irvin, Marlou, Emily and Emilie took the Bus de mer back so that we could explore some of the La Rochelle towers. La Rochelle has three famous ones by the harbour, we chose to go up the Tour de la Chaine (The Chain Tower in English) to see some nice views of La Rochelle.

On our way back we ate at Trucker’s for a delicious meal at a great price before making our way down to pétanque for Irvin’s last evening here at LG. We played some great games and headed down to Saint Bernard’s after for a well deserved drink and said our goodbyes to Irvin seeing as he’d be heading off early in the morning. Despite the early start we headed back around midnight to get some sleep after a fun packed day.