Still kicking.

[El Gordo]

I'll join the kayak/canoe club. When I was a kid, I read a book about canoeing (for some unknown reason), and have wanted to do it ever since.

I've managed it only once, in France, during a carefree fortnight in the mid-80s. We'd been grape-picking (or was that another trip...?). Anyway, we were broke, and spent some time hitch-hiking round the south. We ended up mooching around the Rhone valley for a while. Can't recall how but we found ourselves at a small village on the Ardeche which flows into the Rhone I think. And here they were offering canoe hire so we took off for a day. It was idyllic. Very much tourism rather than sporty stuff. The river was perfectly still and wound for miles through a mountainous area with huge cliff either side. Totally still and silent, apart from the sound of the paddles in the water.

Would love to do that again. M, unfortunately, isn't keen on 'activity' holidays.