Ardres 2019: Photo album now uploaded

I have been through the vast collection of photos, deleting the near duplicates, any fuzzy or bad shots and shrinking them down to a manageable size.  I have now uploaded over 850 shots to a Google Photos album, accessible by clicking below:

Ardres 2019 photos

These are mostly from my Nikon with a few from my phone, and the phone ones pop up not necessarily in the right order.  I do have a few more from Mr Batstone and I am hoping to get some from Mrs Sawyer which I hope to add to the album later.

Panorama, and thank you

Many thanks to all the parents for helping the trip admin run smoothly by being so prompt with payments and paperwork this year, and for turning up promptly to deliver and collect the offspring at the beginning and end.  Thanks also to the pupils, of course, for making the trip go largely uneventfully.

Here's a final panorama of the lake from Thursday evening.  Well done to Toby, Eamonn and Ryan for managing to photobomb twice in the same shot (witchcraft ...).

No Photoshop; this is exactly as shot.

Travel updates

I'll add updates here.

Final ETA 15:25

13:23  (BST):  Just left Dover in coach.  On schedule.  ETA  15:30

12:17 (French time).  Ferry under weigh.

11:14 (French time).  Very fast through passport control, now waiting for about an hour to board the ferry.  All running to plan.

The final evening

Songs, a bit of interesting dancing, toasted marshmallows and ghost stories around the camp-fire on our final evening to round off a very good few days at Ardres.

Washing up

We ran out of washers-up on our rota, so Will and Ryan volunteered to help out as well.  They wish me to point out to their mothers that this might not be a regular occurrence.

Ice cream mission accomplished

This afternoon the second half of the group paddled over the lake to sample the ice creams of M. Sigler.  I have plenty of photos on my camera, and a huge gallery will be uploaded after we get back.  I can only upload a few from my phone now as the wi-fi on site isn't very good.

Kayaking

Getting ready for a kayaking session on the lake.