ILE DE RÉ - FRANCE
After the battles with expensive campsite wifi last night I returned the voucher to the office and explained that it did not work for us. Whether or not we are charged the twenty euro will be interesting on check out.
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| A famous Mum, and Roman |
Headed for the local supermarket via the main cycle route. In the UK I have been impressed with Google Maps for cycling, keeping us off the main highways. We were diverted off the main cycle drag by road works and ended up picking our way through a forest when the mapped routes petered out in reality. All good fun, we were in no rush and the weather was favourable.
Found that a thin, two bar, 3G signal could be obtained by poking my phone out the skylight and then using it as a wifi hot point. Finally some online maths homework was completed, sweetened by a deal of fifty cents per module passed, paid on completion of the whole module. I think this will work out at about €3–4/week each if they work at it. It will also stop them obsessing on getting one hundred percent and then getting bored with redoing every exercise till it is error free. I have set the pass bar at eighty percent. Audrey is gutted that her pedantic perfectionism is not being rewarded (my words, not hers)
Jacqueline is bringing two more MacBook Air laptops with her from NZ giving us one each so that will test the data. We are taking some care and have yet to hit any data limits. We are not downloading movies to that helps and talking books are only about 160mb.
Lots to explore here by bike, everything is beautiful. Yet to start the Disco though cleaned it today. Hoping to do all the exploring / shopping by bike. I think we will stay here a bit longer.
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ReplyDeleteWe liked cycling round the salt flats to Loix too as there are no cars & it’s hard to get lost.
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