Oh, Spring! You Have Arrived At Last!

As per tradition, my day was not a busy one. It started with a healthy amount of sleeping-in, a languorous breakfast and skype home to Mum and Dad, a meditative look out the window, a 5-min (yet strangely exhausting) bike ride to work, an hour and a half of flashcards and colouring in, half-an-hour in a cafe, a couple of hours with ice-cream in the sun and rescuing a lost dog. All in a days work.

But really, it was a rather nice day. Something to do with the sun and how it makes everyone in La Rochelle want to crawl out of whatever hole they lived in during winter. The water was the highest I've ever seen it in the port, it's usually a metre or two lower than this at least. It was so strange to see this dog so close to it! He was sniffing after a duck or seagull, while his owner was careful not to be pulled in.

Speaking of dogs, we saved one today! Well, potentially. It was about the size and weight of a shoe, and wearing a red coat and leash. A leash that was not attached to a humans hand. Vikki and I decided we should probably take pity on it before it was mercilessly squashed under a car tire, but felt extremely foolish actually taking the leash and walking with the dog. Not least because we felt like dog-nappers, but because it was so small that a tug on the leash felt like it would break its neck. Indy, Vikki and I, being the admirable french citizens we are, google mapped the address on its collar and walked it home, eventually leaving it with the kindly man across the street.

Oh, to do a good deed for the day!