France with Beast 1: Life on the Farm

We feel very fortunate to have been in such a heavenly spot for our final week in France. Isolated, but with amazing trails and great food.

The farm always had a wood fire on the go, so the air had the beautiful campfire smell.

There were dogs and cats to admire. Here is our favourite chat, Vanille, who loves to sit and watch TV all day.

 Breakfast and dinner were each a 3 course meal. The food was outstanding. And if they did not have a veggie option for Savvy, they would whip her up a gorgeous omelette. 
 Savvy had her first Crème Brûlée, and her first tiramisu. Then she had it again. And again. 

In the evening, from our comfy bed, we would sometimes watch a special show on my phone, moving into more adult territory it being just Savvy and me. 
We covered some great material during our trip, and each movie/episode provided wonderful discussion for the next day's hike. Elizabeth, Madame Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, The Crown, Les Misérables ...and yes, Frozen 2 was allowed one night.

Savvy also red four novels from the Unwanted series. Our hikes would always start with line one, page one of the chapters she had read the night before, and she would describe the story to me in detail. Then we would move on to analyze the show, if we had watched one the night before. We would bundle up the stories in themes, favourite moments and worst moments, who was the author and what was their background, how we would have changed the story if it had been ours. The conversations where peppered with a million intense questions from Savvy; they were genuinely amazing. How this kid hates school so much, I do not know.

If the books and shows had been exhausted, Savvy would effortlessly come up with a ton of moments to rehash and dreams to share. She retold the story of seeing Frozen 2 with uncle Kevin. How he did not remember Olaf ("This guys is hilarious. Why wasn't he in the first movie?" She laughed so hard about this, she had to sit down on the trail), how Kevin appeared from a washroom break with a full bag of candies for her, plus a blanket, plus a toy. She described how she plans to spend her summers at the cabin, where everything will go, how she will make her bed, what adventures she and her new cat will get up to. She described the kind of baking she would do when home, and what kind of actress she will be, what kind of interior designer she will be, and how she will be very, very wealthy, but generous.  
Basically, I just had to navigate and listen.