Où ça? Où ça? Au Club des Ecureuils !!!!

My dear friends,

I am still enjoying France for the moment....beautiful weather....the crepes are really good...especially the caramel au beurre salé one!

I spent more of my time on the beach with my new friends the kids at the Club des Ecureuils in Dinard. It's a funny club where you play and meet people all the day long! It is just amazing!I am just jumping on the trampolines, do some swings, some slide ....
I have my favourite game now, in french it is called Poule Renard Vipère 'Hen, Viper an fox)! Sounds weird at first...but it is so darn cool!! You have thus three teams you have to eat your friends without being eaten ...the foxes have to cath the hens, the hen have to catch the vipers, the vipers the foxes!! You should see us running and running on the sand everywhere for at least 45 mins!! After that you are so hot that you just run into the sea and play (one more time)!!

I met so many kids there, my french is getting better too, I met some boys and some
girls from England (Brittany is very close from England and especially Jersey and Guernesey two British Islands only one hour by boat from St Malo )but one of my best friend is Venezualian, today I met two really cool girls from San Francisco!


Sunday I went to St Malo, a beautiful old city on the coast, it is like Dubrovnik in smaller, you can also walk on the city walls, there are so many little streets, it is so cute but so crowded...I spent the evening there for the football match Italy VS France. Saint-Malo during the Middle Ages was a fortified island at the mouth of the Rance River Saint-Malo has 50,000 inhabitants, but that number can increase up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season. From St Malo you can see the beach where I spend all my tiring days!!

The beach is in Dinard a really really cute town with a really cool market were you can make so many cool and good deals! In modern history Dinard was first settled by Saint-Malo's shipping merchants who built some of the towns magnificent villas on the cliff tops. In the late 1800's American and British aristocrats made Dinard popular as a fashionable summer resort, and the building of villas and exclusive hotels continued. It has been suggested that Dinard is a "French Brighton".

When I went to St Malo for the football match it was amazing ... they were crazy about the final....they were very stressed.....and they lost!!They were very sad, but they were very surprised about Zidane, they did not understand his gesture toward the Italian player! but never mind as you know for this world cup I was neutral!!I have to much friend around the world to support only a single team!

Oh it is already very late.....have to go!!!

I am still on the beach see you there! Tomorrow we are playing against the other clubs of Dinard...huge contest!!!!

ciao

Sofie