La Belle France avec DS2 - very useful obsession with church clocks

[lingle]

Bonsoir mes amies,

We've just been to France for two weeks.

His latest interest is church clocks. How cool is that? I read an entire Trollope novel (I will leave you to guess whether Joanna or the Victorian one) at various cafes in cute little villages whilst DS2 waited for the clock to chime. Once it chimed, we drove to the next clock and repeated the process. The churches (and clocks) were really rather interesting, I have to say.....

Thanks to those fab ear defenders, there were no significant problems with toileting, more of an obsession with using public loos than a fear now (and of course French ones are all different.....)

Bonsoir!

Glad it went well - the chance to read too, wow!

We go there at the weekend for 2 weeks, Champagne region so we will resort to that if all else fails! I have the biggest folder of pictures, maps, plans of the house for him etc. At the moment he is fairly cool about it as the house we are staying in miraculously has a name like a pokemon character so so far so good!

We have discovered the reprinted I Spy books and nature is suddenly interesting. Hilarious journey the other day when he read us almost the entire content of the car journey one as a rapid list, not even looking out of the window - we had to do that bit. My head was spinning!

Wonder if they do one for church clocks!

Ooh, forgot the MN lingo - I mean DS2 (who will have his 9th birthday while we are there!)

We have just been on holiday in France,charante region & was amazed at the french peoples intolerance to sn children,also I hardly saw any sn children about.
I even ended up attempting to explain dd2's disability to a ranting french woman,who thought I was a terrible mother.
Don't get me wrong I love France & usually it's people,can someone tell me it's really not like that?!

Bonjour! We have just got back from central France ( Averon/Tarn and Garronne borders)with ds (10) and always feel accepted there. We stay in a very rural area (same place as last few years) and ds loves gecos and trees so both keep him occupied! This year he took a special interest in butterflies. Perhaps I should try and interest him in clocks too to allow village visits!
Ds (ASD with M/SLD) amazed us on the journey down. we stopped at a services along with half of france, following a delay. The delay meant we would miss the local shop to buy food to stock the fridge. We were desparate for the loo but there was a queue for the ladies! Ds used the hommes then ran off to explore the shop where I thought dh was paying for petrol. When I got to the shop ds have gathered up not leaflets but cheese milk tomatoes and biscuits for our tea! Dh was still waiting to fill the car outside! Not only had ds stayed in the shop (as asked)but must have taken in the significance of the delay and taken responsible action!
We have found rural France mostly accepting especially as ds has got older and his disability is less invisible IYSWIM.

I took DS to France on Eurostar. He has bowel/poo issues and we ended up with extra seats in the carriage as he pooped quite a bit on that journey! It was lucky there was space in the next room for everybody. DS was free to roam and climb then. lol

Lingle's DS would LOVE the church clock of my home town in Italy, which chimes every 15 minutes! Used to drive me mad at night though...