Au revoir Europe...

Bonjour all
Well our trip is coming to an end. We are still in Spain on the Costa Brava, but tomorrow we head to Montpellier to return the car, then catch the TGV to Paris. We will spend some time in Paris and then a day in Singapore before returning to the 'warm' weather in Christchuch. Please have that arranged for us! I think we may be in shock with the temperatures you have been having!

It has been a good relaxing time here on the Costa Brava. We have been spending alot of time at the beach. I have even had a swimming buddy the last 2 days which has been awesome. Today was my last swim as I probably won't get to swim in Paris. So now that it is almost over, I have to say swimming is very boring! I miss the change in scenery that you get on a bike. Although in saying that, it did get slightly interesting this morning when I thought a shark had nudged my pool buoy! It turns out it was just a wave hitting it awkwardly - but it did freak me out at the time! I have been thinking a bit about sharks this past week, as we saw on the news here that a great white had attacked someone in Florida which is highly unusual. I then started to tell myself that my pool buoy could in fact look like a giant lure... my mind was playing silly tricks, but at least it forced me to get out of 1st gear and lift my game slightly!

Yesterday at the beach we had front row seats to a skydiver landing. He was having trouble with the on-shore wind, and was turning and cruising up and down the beach near where we were. Then he finally landed about 15m away from us - it was very exciting!

We have been in a hotel for the last few nights as we could only rent our apartment for the week. The Spanish guy at the desk is hilarious. He is so excited that we come from NZ and keeps asking us all about it. I think he also likes to practise his English. Every time we go anywhere we have to leave our key at the front reception - and he always says "have a nice day" when we give it to him. The other day we were in and out so many times, and every time he said "have a nice day" - even when we headed out for dinner that night. He kind of reminds me of 'Manwel' from Faulty Towers...

Jase and I seem to be back to our silly competitive ways also. Our banter the other night culminated in us both getting up out of bed in the middle of the night to have an arm wrestle! I am highly irate to say that I lost rather easily... He keeps telling me that I am "stuck in loser-ville" so I am soon to come up with something I can win...

Well I probably won't write again now before we get home... Thanks so much for reading all my waffle. We have had a fantastic trip. It may not have been as good/the same as I would have liked, but it has allowed me to do some other things that I probably wouldn't have done otherwise. It has also given me the time I needed to make the right decision regarding surgery. Given how limited I am activity-wise (basically I can swim with a pool buoy, and walk slowly but not too far), Jase and I feel the right decision is to have the surgery. I hope I can get back to high level sport, but if not I at least want to be more active than I am now. I will keep using this blog to keep those of you from out of town updated on my surgeries etc.

See you all soon.
Au revior...
Jeanette