Wee run on holiday. Lovely morning. Actually, was lovely whole holiday. Arrived Thursday, hire car collection was fine, C navigated us to the property fine, lovely place. Friday we went into local town Gisors and market. Also ate and looked at castle and church / cathedral. Really interesting historical town. 13th century etc. Saturday we went to Versailles. Amazing trip - brilliant guided tour in palace, then coffee and snacks in town. Evening for the fountains and fireworks show. Beautiful spectacle. Late home 1am! Sunday (this day) was chilling in amazing garden of the villa (converted barn off farmhouse in hamlet). A pool (covered to keep debris out and warmth in - salt water, actually nicer to swim in than chlorine), tennis court and their horses looking over the fence (and sometimes in the garden!)
I went for this wee run, through the fields, then on to a road, into nearby village with mysterious tower on hill, which I made my goal to check out. Was just a comms tower it transpired. Back to village along road. Great place to run. Even cars were polite!
Monday was Monet's house and gardens. Also lovely. Lots of pics! Then Tuesday to Paris to Moulin Rouge. Didn't enjoy that one bit. Animals and topless girls, rubbish dancing, rubbish singing. What is this the 1970s?! Really tacky. And £200 each. I was livid! But I didn't want to spoil it for C, for whom it was "a dream come true". So tried to bite my lip. May sign or start a petition against it as a form of democratic protest. Really tawdry stuff, imho, a terrible anachronism that has no place in 21st century and the metoo generation. Really surprised at C's enthusiasm, given that she is a young, millennial woman. Anyhoooo.
Wed was another chill day at house and Thursday we had to leave. Lovely holiday. But as S said, in many ways, we would enjoy just 7 days anywhere (UK, stay cation, avoid flying etc.) just in each other's company. Weather and French food were a bonus, but by no means essential.
G
Split Summary
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1) 1m - 10:00(10:00/m) 135/145bpm 114cal 6/6.57mph
2) 1m - 9:19(9:19/m) 146/161bpm 116cal 6.44/6.95mph
3) 1m - 9:43(9:43/m) 155/168bpm 129cal 6.17/6.68mph
4) 1m - 10:50(10:50/m) 148/173bpm 123cal 5.54/7.12mph
5) 1m - 9:31(9:31/m) 148/160bpm 113cal 6.31/6.82mph
6) 0.31m - 3:05(10:00/m) 153/157bpm 39cal 6/6.39mph