Vacations
Like most families, we love our vacations, and our camera tends to see the
light of day most often during vacations . . . .
You must know this vacation paradise . . .
Yes, "It's a Small World after all" at Disneyland.
And you may even know Yosemite National Park in
California's Sierra Nevada. But we also vacation in Saint
Mâlo and Brocéliande in Brittany, which
are their own kind of paradise, and once even
in New York City and in
Vancouver BC.
We also have the advantage of living in a
tourist town, complete with its very own
funfair, enabling us to take mini-vacations weekly!
We lump some of the common
vacation themes together too: swimming
pools, a sand castle, more
swimming pools and, oh yes, more Disneyland!
Ever
fancied a train trip across the entire USA,
courtesy of Amtrak? Now that was a vacation, and what better way to
introduce the children to all this wonderful land? How about a boat
trip across the English channel? Or a charming
little English town, or an English Funfair?
On the right is a classic vacation tourist shot, Big Ben at dusk at 9.00
pm in July 2001. We were just arriving in London after a Eurostar trip from
Paris. It was a beautiful luminous evening. This one warms
Ian's English heart, even if it is out of focus!
Starting from the right, Tom and Alex, and then
Charlie and Nick surround
their dad.
August of 2000 saw us all
in Florida, living the good life at the Sonesta Beach
Resort on Key Biscayne,
alligator spotting in the Everglades and, you guessed it, visiting Disney
World.
As we get older, we take more and more vacations in smaller groups,
so that the teenagers can do their own thing. In June 2004, a less usual
vacation duo, Tom and Ian, took a short but wonderful
road trip to Colorado.
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Vacations for us means family and friends most of the
time.
In 2007, for example, we spent
most of our summer vacation in France, and most of that time at
Grand-père's
place, La Grée, in the Morbihan. On a day trip
down to Carnac, we stopped in on Denis (Marie-Hélène's
brother) and Claire's summer place.
In addition to Alex, Charlie and
Marie-Hélène, this
group of Berhauts in the garden at Carnac
includes Denis and Claire (front left), Bertil (in front of Marie-Hélène),
tante Lucette, Grand-père and Cedric (behind
Grand-père).
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A week of our summer vacation in 2007 was spent in
England, visiting Ian's family and
friends.
Here is Marie-Hélène with Ian's
cousin Ron and his wife Louise, with his mum, Aunty Vi, sitting in front
of them. This was taken in the pub where we all ate lunch. Another shot
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