Ile De Re: Date Night (Wednesday 21/06/2017)
So fleetingly rare is the chance for the parents of small children to enjoy normal discourse, unpunctuated by the perpetual round of threats and bribes, that date night has become an essential pressure valve.
No less than 3 times per year, a reckless devil may care attitude surfaces. In a two fingered, hang the expense gesture to the universe, ruinous child care is procured and glad rags are shaken out for the occasion.
Not for us, the bright lights and glamorous watering holes, when a carbohydrate heavy feed washed down with something alcoholic and fizzy will suffice.
And so having duped Tom and Jenny into not only capturing the little people but also subduing them until our return, we sloped into the evening sunlight leaving a trail of occasional aftershave and bitter recrimination as the penny dropped.
After inspecting the wares in the tourist pop up shops at Phare de Baleines (note: there is a big lighthouse but a scandalous absence of whales) we prevaricated until hunger started asking difficult questions and Le Café du Commerce in Ars-en Re happily provided all the answers.
As Brexit looms, the social and economic ramifications of the government's monumentally poorly thought out proposition encouraged Clare to explore some thought provoking issues that child care rarely allows space for.
I nodded sagely while pretending to smoke one of my lamb chops like a pipe.
Later I wobbled my Crème caramel suggestively.
No less than 3 times per year, a reckless devil may care attitude surfaces. In a two fingered, hang the expense gesture to the universe, ruinous child care is procured and glad rags are shaken out for the occasion.
Not for us, the bright lights and glamorous watering holes, when a carbohydrate heavy feed washed down with something alcoholic and fizzy will suffice.
And so having duped Tom and Jenny into not only capturing the little people but also subduing them until our return, we sloped into the evening sunlight leaving a trail of occasional aftershave and bitter recrimination as the penny dropped.
After inspecting the wares in the tourist pop up shops at Phare de Baleines (note: there is a big lighthouse but a scandalous absence of whales) we prevaricated until hunger started asking difficult questions and Le Café du Commerce in Ars-en Re happily provided all the answers.
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| Very tall and striking...and a lighthouse in the background. |
As Brexit looms, the social and economic ramifications of the government's monumentally poorly thought out proposition encouraged Clare to explore some thought provoking issues that child care rarely allows space for.
I nodded sagely while pretending to smoke one of my lamb chops like a pipe.
Later I wobbled my Crème caramel suggestively.
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