Holiday in France part1

A little out of synch with the blogs, but we are back from our hols, safe and rested..... well feeling tired but that's what goes with 5 children and long journeys! Finding getting back to homelife a little difficult!We started our hols by stopping by Penny and Steve's in Charentes(http://www.chezcharente.com/) to see the renovation progress on their gîte. We arrived with breakfast croissant and even met up unexpectedly with Stainsby cousins!!! what a small world! We had a lovely lazy day around the pool being beatifully catered for... Matthew and Joseph spent the day underwater with flippers, Isaac and Benjamin overcame their fear of water so much so that they were being over confident by the water's edge and even our littlest dipped her toes in and sat in her inflatable seat! We had so much fun that we forgot to take the camera out!!! Thank you guys for your hospitality.Short and sweet we headed back off in the early hours of the morning to our final destination.( a little delay in arrival as our windscreen wipers stopped working and we had to wait for the rain to stop to carry on our journey!)