Monday, June 29, 2009

28th June 2009- An easy day and a night in the bar

We had quite an easy day really and just enjoyed the sun and did some reading and then walked completely around the camp site and took some photographs of the views etc.

A large part of the day was spent reading and Noel caught up with blogs and photos etc and a few outstanding emails before we spent some time at the pool and enjoyed a good swim and an early dinner of poulet grille et salade (or something like this) or chicken and salad to the uninitiated. The camp site owner had agreed to print out some documents that we needed and so we went down the bar for a quick swift one and we ended up spending the evening there in the company of Stuart and Sheila, the owners, and two other couple who were passing by the area.

It was a very interesting evening with lots of discussion on managing camp sites, the dismal control by a Caravan Club Rally manager and the absolute disregard for the arrangements that Stuart had made for them at personal cost which then caused him some embarrassment with his suppliers. I do not think that he will allow further rallies from this organisation.

There also appears to be a small epidemic affecting household pets, viz cats and dogs, and also sheep where an insect, apparently new to the area and almost unknown, sting's the animals in the eye and in the case of sheep and one of the owners cats it turns them blind. Of course discussion turned to UK politics and also the recent death of Michael Jackson.

We got back to the caravan around 1130 pm but it was a good night.