It was a bit grey again today and the weather during the past week has not been as expected and although it is not cold it is really not really warm enough to enjoy swimming and sunbathing.
As we had not been to Fijeac for quite some while, many years actually, and so we headed off their using the back roads and as usual there were some magnificent views across the hills and farmed fields to little villages etc. We had been watching the on board SatNav which confirmed our road position when we came across a high barbed wire fence alongside the road which looked more military than a public fence and then suddenly the road we were on completely disappeared off the Sat Nav. Strange we thought? but we continued on and after
about a mile or so the road suddenly appeared back on our SatNav. We are not sure how this happened unless there is a military establishment which is not mentioned on the map blocking some signals.
There appears to be quite a number of houses that have recently been renovated or in the process of being renovated with a high preponderates of English cars and we can understand why this area is so popular. House prices are cheaper than the Dordogne and are in a area which has a low population count and is very quiet with lovely villages and a few medium size towns nearby where you can get most of your shopping. We arrived in Fijeac around 1215 and just as the shops are shutting which they do until 2.30 and in some cases 3.45 and so the place was very quiet but some restaurants were busy. We grabbed some sandwiches and headed to the river to eat them and watched the multitude of fish going by.
We did some shopping of essentials and then headed back the same way as we came and got home around 4pm and Boy! it was getting cooler- this can't be right?
We have now made site bookings for our return journey and will stay near Poitier the first night and have booked the last night near Abbeville which leaves us enough time to leave there and drive to Calais and pick up our mid afternoon boat.
Tonight we had a new fish we had not tried before called Lingue Bleue, we are not sure of the English equivalent but will find out soon but it was a firm flesh fish and very tasty.
We are both deep in too books at this moment but finished up the evening with two instalments of Black Adder II which were very funny indeed.
We understand that the weather will start to improve again tomorrow but let us see
