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Team Charlotte & Le Touquet's Cocq (

After spending some time on the beach munching our fromage and jambon baguettes   (we discovered that it was a tops optional beach!) and exploring Le Touquet, we tried our hand at continental football against the local men's side.  This time we had our full, more experienced contingent. USAvIRN-fp.jpg (25977 bytes)The locals were  interested in us enough to send the newspaper to take our combined team picture just as the usa-name.gif (551 bytes) USA_flag.gif (517 bytes) and irn-name.gif (496 bytes) irn_flag.gif (610 bytes) the night before.Game2a.jpg (15258 bytes)Just as we held the English to one at the half, we did the same with the French.  Just as we fell apart in the 2nd against the English, so we did the same against the French.   Only this time to the tune of 6 - 0 .

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Warming up before the big game

The French were very nice hosts after humiliating us and threw us a friendly little champagne and hors devours party.  Champgn1.jpg (15773 bytes)

Restrn1.jpg (8810 bytes)After a lovely seafood dinner of fish appetizer, fish soup, and the main course of fish (of course), we went to the casino for more beer and to watch eng-name.gif (771 bytes) ENG_flag.gif (523 bytes)lose to rom_flag.gif (301 bytes)rom-name.gif (750 bytes). Miguel upheld the manhood of  all North Carolina  by downing some vile British concoction.

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