Tuesday 5th September 2017

Today we travelled to Le Crotoy to catch the steam train. Aileen David and me got on the train and Arthur drove the car and would meet up with us at the harbour. The train took us to Saint Vallery, the train took an hour, basically it was rather slow, however, it was quite quaint and it was an experience. When we arrived Arthur was waiting for us, it took him 13 minutes to get there, so much so he even had time to go for a coffee. We then continued on to Le Tréport a beautiful little place. We parked at the top of the hill and caught the funicular down to street level. We wandered along and found a restaurant Aileen and Arthur had surprise surprise FISH. David and I had steak hace (a beef burger without a bun) the food was good. After lunch we had a wander along the front checking out the various shops. The boys were checking out the people fishing on the pier. We then headed home where we had a nice evening where we sat round the table eating various little snacks, plenty of wine. Played a game of lateral thinking but the biggest surprise of all was David with his number prowess. We were calling out words and he would shout out the number equivalent with the alphabet. We could not believe that we have known David for over 40 years and did not know he possessed such a talent.