Friends and family

One of our aims this year is to spend quality time with friends and family, and after lots of visits to other people, it has been great the last couple of weeks to have visitors here. After a weekend with a French/Beninese family staying we had my parents for a week, and had lovely times with them. We had wonderful weather for the first few days, and then a trip to the "Cité du Train" in Alsace to celebrate my dad's 70th birthday.

In the park with our friends:
 

Mum and me in Place Stanislas, Nancy:

Three generations on a bench:

At the Cité du Train. Eve driving a TGV:

Trying out the seats:

Wow, this one's big!

And this one's very small (a little train we could ride on around the museum):

An amazingly imaginative - and extensive - model railway to give my dad lots of ideas for his: