Personal Essays

This place near Saint Malo was a good find. A maize maze (or corn maze if you're from North America) with three play areas in the middle of four mazes. We attempted one of them, but soon got fed up of running up and down the aisles between the stalks of sweetcorn. We switched to the play areas after that and found several bouncy castles. This one had a large white dome in the middle which was very soft. Standing up was a challenge, particularly if you were a grown up and sneaked a go on it when there where no other kids apart from your own on it (fortunately there is no photographic evidence). Being a grown up was an advantage when it came to crashing down and putting everyone else off balance.

Unfortunately the rain arrived soon after that, and we'd been very un-British and forgotten to bring our rain coats, so we had to leave. Still, better to leave before you have enough than after.