Easter Hollidays

This year for Easter we planned on a trip to the sea with our friends Maria and Greg. Greg's family has a lovely house on the Normandie coast and we where very lucky to borrow it for the weekend.
We left Paris on Friday night about 11pm, and arrived at Fecamp about 2am. The house hadn't been inhabited since September and was literary frozen on the inside... I think it was the coldest night I've spent in my entire life, though I had on: two leggings, two pairs of wool socks, one wool shirt, a big wool sweater, and many blankets... Luckily the electricity and the radiators worked just fine and the next morning, the inside temperature was almost comfortable!

Saturday we had a late breakfast followed by a  lovely walk along the beach. In the afternoon we went for a run, Me and Maria for a smaller one (...) and Etienne and Greg for a more appropriate distance... (but we are not the ones preparing for the marathon!).
In the evening, we made a fire and had some wine and tuna rillettes for starters  before we attacked an enormous seafood platter. Starting at eight o'clock, at midnight we where still eating... (Somebody made up the challenge that nobody could leave the table as long as there where any food left...). I don't think we slept very good that night either...

Changing the hour the night upon Sunday, made us sleep really late that day also... (very relaxing weekend...). After a quick breakfast, it was already time to prepare lunch..; Salmon trout and ratatouille, absolutely delicious!
After lunch it was time to hunt for the Easter eggs. Etienne had been hiding them all over the house, so we had grate fun looking for them. A bit childish maybe, but tradition is tradition!

Quite stuffed, we where ready to attack the day around 5pm... The scenery in Normandie is absolutely fabulous, with high cliffs going straight into the ocean. We drove along the coast and visited several places that was really worth seeing. Small cute villages, natural stone slabs beaches, cliffs...
The last place we went to was the famous village of Etretat. The views are breathtaking and you can walk from one cliff to the other. A sort of path has been made so that you can easily climb the cliffs. It's a little bit steep but not so much, so you can easily bring children or elder people.

It was almost 9pm before we where back home. For dinner we had planned for a leg of lamb and gratin dauphinois (potatoes gratinated in cream and cheese). We had just more or less forgotten that this takes time to make and time to cook... But we where finally set to have dinner at 11pm... not so bad, really... Once more it was difficult to fall a sleep, as we had seriously overeaten...

Monday, the last day of Easter went really, really fast. I think we must have been quite disturbed by the change of time, because we woke up late this day too... we only had the time to have lunch, hit for a run, have dinner, and then pack our bags and go back to Paris... A bit sad, but really it's amazing what a few days of nature can do to you. Once back in Paris you feel like you've been away for a whole week.

So that was pretty much our Easter holidays, in resume; beautiful walks, a lot of lovely food, good friends and a lot of sleep... :)