The start of Spring has been marked by sadness with the loss of a dear cousin, Jean-Yves - the "senior" member of my generation in the family, and the loss of aunt Sally, of New Zealand.
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During the French school holidays, Delphine's sister Erika and her three daughters, Victoire, Capucine and Sixtine came to visit for two weeks, leaving husband Emmanuel and son Cyprien in France. We had a fun time - with the obligatory trip to our "Heidi's hutte". Here we have found a video about Haiming which is where our Hutte is.
Then, during the German school holidays, we all went to France. We mainly stayed with Erika, and we also made a trip to the Loire valley to visit M'amie (Alister's Mother) and Grandad - who was about to celebrate his 75th birthday!
We then made another (70th) birthday celebration with Delphine's father in a very fine Parisian restaurant
"Apicius".
We took the opportuntiy of visiting some sights (see our cryptic photo of the Eiffel Tower) before leaving for a couple of days with Delphine's aunt Monique (and uncle Willem) in Brussels.
A quick and very enjoyable visit to friends John, Irena and baby Lisha in Luxemburg rounded off a very successful Easter break.
Back to work - everything going well for all of us. Mattéo and Juliette enjoy having friends - such as neighbour Simon - in the garden to get on with some serious housing building work.
Finally, just today (writing this Blog) Mattéo and Dad managed to carry out a long wished day out: fishing near Munich. Easier said than done in Germany ... Alister had to follow an extensive course during the winter before passing an exam to get a licence. Anyway the day was very successful - we caught the limit of three Rainbow Trout (48cm, 32cm, 30cm - total weight 2200g)!!
