A Day's Holiday, 17 July

 

We’d promised ourselves today off – a shame we didn’t pick a better day for the weather. We headed to Treignac Lake for starters, dumping a couple of sacks of topsoil en-route. The beach at the lake was deserted but there was a group out kayaking on the lake, three folk practicing their archery and a group of infants enjoying games.

Next we headed to Brive,  stopping in Treignac to buy some gorgeous looking cakes and handmade chocolates from the local, award winning choclatier. Over €30 for a couple of cakes and a very small box of chocolates.

In Brive we parked up near the church in the centre. Unfortunately, we were not sure whether the parking was free or whether we needed to pay at a meter; I think it was the former. We went for a brief walk but concern over a possible ticket saw us returning to the car before too long and heading to Leroy Merlin at Malemort. There we picked up various items including some more roof felt and a grinding wheel. I had been burning through so many spade drill bits, doing the rewiring, that I had decided to try my hand at sharpening them.

Finally, back home, and with the car unpacked, we found that the cakes and chocolates were in a sorry state. This may have been one of the coolest days of our visit, but the heat was still more than these delicacies could stand. We had the cakes that night and at least the flavour was unaffected – they were delicious which, at €5 each, you would hope they were.