South Hams Friends of the Earth

We arrived here, at my father's home, last weekend and I have just waved goodbye to Sara on one the train of the day, heading home this morning.

The heat was becoming rather oppressive last week. On our last day of cycling we left Gueret at 6.15 am to arrive before the mid-day heat. Travelling like this really makes you appreciate our much-maligned weather. I was thinking, in 11 years in Devon I cannot recall a single day when I was unable to cycle, walk, do anything outdoors because it was too hot, too cold, too dangerous (yes, I have done cycling events through the worst of our storms on Dartmoor). Here, the mid-day temperatures frequently reach the mid 30s after a winter where they reached minus 22. My father is enjoying his new life here, but the climate is the one thing he would swap back for the UK any day.

Aubusson is about the size of Kingsbridge, usually pretty quiet except this week when France beat Portugal and it exploded into celebration. I will be spending a few more days here before heading off North-Eastwards.