{"id":8124,"date":"2018-05-16T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T08:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2018-05-17T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T14:17:40","slug":"a-change-of-plan-for-the-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/a-change-of-plan-for-the-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change of Plan for the Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Last Minute Plan Change for the Volunteers<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_8130\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9756-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9756-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A panoramic view of the coast at Talmont. \" width=\"640\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9756-copy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9756-copy-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9756-copy-150x60.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beautiful view of Talmont.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Friday the 11th of May, a working day&#8230; Right? WRONG! The 4 remaining <em>volunteers <\/em>and Paul took a day off to enjoy the sunny weather while it lasted (not very long) and went to the seaside!<\/p>\n<p>A very fast turnaround was in order after breakfast on Friday as everyone received a 15 minute warning before we were due to leave to start our day out. We started off by driving 45 minutes to the local town of <strong>Pons<\/strong>. Paul acted as our tour guide during the day, providing us with lots of information about the\u00a0Donjon de Pons whilst we sat drinking hot drinks and eating croissants at a caf\u00e9 that overlooked the donjon.<\/p>\n<p>After our 30 minute break, we set off on the road again to our second destination of <strong>Talmont<\/strong> &#8211; One of the most beautiful towns in France. On arrival at Talmont, we were greeted by a mass of kites in the air and as we soon found out, it was the day of the f\u00eate du vent! After exploring the beautiful little town for an hour (and also doing some shopping), it was time for well deserved stop for lunch. Whilst some volunteers had salads or sweet crepes, John tried his first ever savoury crepe and loved it!<\/p>\n<p>It was then\u00a0time to drive to our final destination of the day, <strong>Saint-Palais-sur-Mer<\/strong>. During the drive from Talmont, the weather took a change for the worse as the clouds started to cover the sun and the temperature dropped to 18\u00b0C compared to\u00a023\u00b0C when we set off. However, this drop in temperature didn&#8217;t stop Lily and John taking a dip in the freezing Atlantic sea!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8132\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9774-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8132\" class=\" wp-image-8132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9774-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two of our volunteers swimming in the Atlantic sea.\" width=\"448\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9774-copy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9774-copy-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9774-copy-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily and John taking a dip in the Atlantic.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a very long day, the car journey back to La Giraudi\u00e8re was a quiet one as most of the <em>volunteers<\/em>\u00a0took a nap the whole way back. We&#8217;re excited for our next trip out!<\/p>\n<p>There is a very simple process to be part of the team at LG so check out <a href=\"http:\/\/volunteer-france.lagiraudiere.com\/volunteers_application_process.html\" target=\"_blank\">The process of volunteering in France<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Last Minute Plan Change for the Volunteers Friday the 11th of May, a working day&#8230; Right? WRONG! The 4 remaining volunteers and Paul took a day off to enjoy the sunny weather while it lasted (not very long) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/a-change-of-plan-for-the-volunteers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8170,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/8170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}