Fishes out of water

Autumn arrived in the Charente this weekend, it's almost like a switch has been flicked, all the leaves have decided now is the time to switch from green to golden, and there was wind and rain so a large leaf fall as well, but the temps were still around 20 degrees. We were sweeping up the leaves in our tee shirts and it was warmer outside than inside at certain points, though heavy rain on Sunday night brought the temparatures down outside.

On Saturday we had a day out in La Rochelle and the highlight of the visit ( for Fleur at least) was a visit to the aquarium, which I must say was amazing, I think the French really have worked out how to run a museum/educational venue in a way certainly we Brits have not totally grasped yet. The only slight disappointment, if you could call it that was that the sharks were so small, however I would probably be the first to complain if there were large sharks swimming around in something too small for them. There was a huge variety of fish and they did their best to create a habitat for them that was as close to the wild as possible. Overall a very enjoyable visit, usually we just give the gift shop a cursary look around before leaving, as it only has the same old tat with a different location name on it, but there were a few different things on sale at the aquarium including for the first time that we have seen, a gift with our daughter's name on it, so we had to buy it.