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Coffee in St Remy
Today we got up and went to St Remy for coffee and croissants and some retail efforts :). St Remy is a gorgeous village, with some great stores……
Les Baux
Thursday we went to a place called Les Baux. 
This place is a mountain top castle ruin, where there is a village and castle/chateau ruin. It was absolutely fantastic. ON the top of the chateau there was a football field sized plateau of grass and rock. They had 5 different sized catapults, or trebugets on demonstration. They launched waterballoons across the flat, which was rather un dramatic, but the action of seeing the load and release of these devices of war were very cool indeed. I got some videos of them, which I will upload in the next few days…………
The rest of the afternoon was spent hydrating, in the pool and from the bar. Also Grand Pere entertained the little fellas with some bubble blowing……..
St Remy Market
Wednesday is the big market day in St Remy. We spent the morning over there, which is only 10 minutes from our villa. Probably the most impressive open air street market, wit the highest quality goods I have ever seen…….
Chateauneuf du pape
We visited a place famous for its red wines, Chateuneuf is a village and is surrounded by award winning vineyards.
Arles
Had a great day , everyone went to the town called Arles,- a place van Gogh did a lot of his painting.
Edinburgh Castle, and off to France
We spent our final day in Scotland as proper tourists. We stormed the castle, Gaver loved the Guard house and the cannons. We spent some more time walking around the Royal Mile, which is in the middle of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. An absolutely awesome event. We enjoyed the people watching, and had great weather.
We headed out of Scotland, through Heathrow to Nice. More to come as we head into the depths of Provence this week….
The Fringe Festival……..
We headed out today in sunny Edinburgh to see the area. The Fringe festival is on here and it is pretty cool all the different acts, shows, street performers etc……….and yup thats a dude in the frying pan being held up by the other dude…..Gav is off to sleep now…. lunch time for parents…
Another video finally uploaded using these Scottish Internets……
Exit from SW15……
Today we spent our last day in Putney at the Clarkes, before heading out to Edinburgh. We had an incredible weekend weith everyone, especially Aiofe, Lisa and Barry. They were the ultimate hosts. 
Sunday we had an episode of the Harry Blackstaffe lunch, and then a wet the head party at Vesta. The men were at Blades for barely cooked steaks, several lovely bottles of wine, and of course speeches and port. From there it was down to meet the better halves to celebrate Gav meeting Vesta for the first time.
The men continued the celebrations far too long, well into Sunday evening – of which all paid dearly Monday. For the Wettlaufers,
Monday was a day to tour London, see some sites, and generally wander around London. We hit the overland train, got Gav through Waterloo station, across to see Parliament and Big Ben then to chase the birds at Trafalgar square.
Gaver met his first bobby there, who was cool with sharing a pic , before we wandered back to SW15 so the ladies could have their own night out. Baso and I cooked a home meal, well BArry cooked it, I kept the beers flowing, and we had a great night out as the kids slept.
Today was a short day in London, a nice walk and visit with Rachel before heading to Heathrow to catch a ride to Edinburgh. For such a short flight, it seemed a LOT longer. Anyways, we hit Edinburgh in style, got to our place, and are happily watching UK Film4 eating a pizza as G-man sleeps off the jet lag.
Its the Fringe fest here in Edinburgh, and there is a LOT to see and do. We are really looking forward to spending a few days on tour here.
And some more videos are coming, the Scottish internets are a little slow……. I am testing Facebook this week…….
Gav lands in SW15
So the wettlaufers survived the trip to London. Gman made an awesome effort and while the BA lounge and the drinks and dinner service on the plane weren’t necessarily conducive to sleep Gaver managed to crash and get some ZZs.
We hit Terminal 5 at LHR and managed black cab to the Clarkes. The taxi drove our exact route we used to drive home from work, it was great to laugh about a) how far we drove and b) how familiar this place feels.
We spent the afternoon with Baso, and Lisa just joined us after work. Dinner cooking……wine has been opened. It i SO GOOD to see these guys.
Thats Daph next to her dream car, the Nissan Figaro, and thats Gav holding a Hurley stick….
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