Keep on moving now...

We have done quite a lot of moving about in the last month! After arriving in France we were in quarantine in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine for two weeks. We found a lovely Airbnb - a small house and courtyard - and enjoyed our time there despite not going out for the first ten days, and just having walks around the area the last three (we left on the fourteenth). We organised exercise sessions (PE with Joe for those who know him!) and those of us who wanted to took up a writing challenge - to write for an hour each day and read it out to the others in the evening (fiction and non-fiction). Marc's parents kindly did our shopping for us.


Eating in the courtyard.

Then at last we were able to join Marc's family, safe in the knowledge that we had nothing to infect them with! After two years apart, that was a very joyful reunion!

The week after that, we went down to Orange for our debriefing with SIM France. We always enjoy seeing the team there, and it was good to talk things over. This time even our kids were debriefed separately from us, and apparently that went very well too. We also had a weekend to explore Provence a bit, visiting the Pont du Gard and some rivers.







Back at Marc's parents', we were able to attend their church, which has been able to open again for services - with strict mask-wearing and distancing. They asked Marc to preach, which he found to be more difficult with a mask on!

After that, Marc and I left the kids in the safe hands of their grandparents, and drove over to Nancy, in the east of France. It's where we met, and where we spent a year with our kids 2015-1016. Finding a flat was a bit of a palaver last time, so I was very thankful when we liked and were able to rent the first flat we visited this time! We will hopefully be signing tomorrow or Tuesday.