Last Full Day (Sally) - July 19th


Sad day. Last full day. Time to pack our bags and head to our other home.

Spent the day finishing little jobs. The cupboard in Serena’s room looks fantastic. Did cleaning and covering some of the furniture to save time on Saturday.




Andy hung the door to the lounge/diner. The improvement to that room is tremendous.

The day went fast. We did intend going out for a meal, but our hearts were not in it. Had a take out pizza instead. I think it was described as seven cheese. What the seven cheeses are is anybody’s guess. I go with - emmental , gruyere, mozzarella, brie, camembert, roquefort and cheddar. Truly I have no idea, hence cheddar. Bound to have emmental and gruyere in there somewhere. I find it quite shocking that you go to a French cafe, hoping for a nice Brie butty and they offer you the aforesaid gruyere or emmental.

After dinner we went for a walk around the village. As I mentioned on Friday,week one, I went a walk to the papetierre to see the farmers/food market and found nothing going on. Today, Andy & I, walked back, passed this same area to find it a hive of activity. Typical. We had already eaten. The French, when they say from 05:00 p.m they really mean 08:00 p.m.

Andy didn’t fancy the jars of snails on offer, neither did I. I have eaten snails in the past and they are quite inoffensive. Probably the large amount of butter and garlic used has something to do with this. Can’t say if they taste of anything in particular - large amount of butter and garlic used. Frogs legs, however, look like frogs legs and taste like chicken. Why does everything taste like chicken? Perhaps chicken really tastes like frogs legs, or rabbit!

And so to bed. Another warm night.

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