I'd forgotten all about school trips in primary school - packed lunches, long, rowdy bus journeys and bringing every item of clothing possible just in case it rained/ snowed/ was actually sunny. Today I went on a French school trip which was exactly that - even though there was no chance of rain in sunny Provence, every child had a raincoat in tow!
We went to a Ferme Pedagogique, which was completely the opposite of what I imagined when I was told we were going to a farm. Instead of lots of animals, we played with instruments made out of vegetables, tasted all different kinds of honey and made collages out of herbs.
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| Some very strange 'instruments' made out of rotten vegetables |
All of this was very strange but the French just seemed to take it in their stride. My favourite part of the day was the cooking section, where we made Peach sorbet and sirop du menthe (like a mint squash - surprisingly nice!) As I was deemed a 'responsible adult', I was put in charge of cutting the peaches...
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| Top chef! |
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| My little team busy chopping up peaches |
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| Sorting out the freshly-picked mint |
After the cooking lesson, we went to see some of the animals, but I wasn't too impressed - French sheep having nothing on the ones back home! We also had a little lesson in beekeeping before we got back on the bus after a busy but fun day at the farm!
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| Beekeeping... without any actual bees for health and safety reasons! |
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