Foreign Perspectives

You’ll probably be quite amazed to find us listed as number four at Take a Break Nudist Retreats ! Haven’t pulled in any punters from that site just yet though.

We have just been accepted by the Ryanair activity breaks site so are busy working on some packages to put onto it. Most likely the first will be a Christmas short break, so if the in-fighting re the location of the Christmas do is still ongoing, you may as well plonk Mas Camps into the fray! Any suggestions folks?

Some folk were asking about an archive of these little mails. How does something like Mas Camps News grab you? I haven’t added them all yet but should get up to date later this week.

We’ve been busy sorting out our “to do” list for the period up to next summer (so it’s a biggie!). We’ve now got more than enough on it to keep us out of trouble for quite a while but at least it’s giving us a chance to see that things are moving ahead.

One thing that’s really going to feature bigtime in the activities for the next couple of months is a massive booking by a French family. They’ve booked the entire building for the evening of the 31st December through to lunchtime on the 2nd with all meals. We’ve not nailed down the final menu but have just received a EUR 600 deposit cheque so I guess we better get going on the planning. They’re even using a couple of rooms that we never planned on using so we need to tidy those up a bit.

James & John are getting their first French injections tomorrow afternoon. No problems with MMR vs separate injections over here: you just ask for them and they give you the prescription to get them. You’ve to pay for the vaccines that you get in the chemist but £15 for three is something of a bargain as compared to £80 for just the measles one in the UK. Those with kids who are interested in the three vaccine option could probably manage to do it on holiday over here for much the same price (the NHS would refund the 70% that normal French health plans refund; you can claim the refund here or, more easily if you’ve not got a French bank account, when you get back home). There’s no waiting time either: in the UK we were on the measles list for about six months; here we just popped into the chemist and could have even had the injection the same day if we’d organised the appointment that way.

We’ve not forgotten about the deportation issue but there haven’t been any developments on that front lately.

I see that “the bridge” is being opened by Chirac on December 17th. It’s part of the Paris-Barcelona highway but unfortunately they’ve not even started on the bit between Beziers and Perpignan so effectively the traffic jam will move from Millau (and boy is it dreadful there!) to around Beziers. Still, at least the roads around Beziers are considerably better than the awful mess through Millau.