A slightly interesting day today and after an early’ish breakfast we started work on our new fangled waste water and direct water connections and from instant success we went to failure in two short moves and so we have start all over again tomorrow. More details to follow.
The weather here is still great and we spent a bit of time fiddling with various aspects of the van and then did some reading and for dinner we had a very nice prawn and egg salad washed down with a small glass of wine, what again you say, but this is France and everybody drinks wine here. This evening at the bar/restaurant is ‘moules et frites’ but as neither of us are really impressed with Moules and as we had some rather excellent prawns that must be eaten today before they walk off by themselves it was time to say no and so we toddled to the bar around 8.30 pm and spent a very pleasant evening drinking wine in the company of a couple from Leeds, both retired and so we compared travel notes and also the various aspect of caravanning whilst finishing with our mutual thoughts on the UK Government and the world in general and we both agreed that being retired and over here was certainly a good move.
There was a two piece group who played, surprisingly, French songs all evening and they did a very good job for about 3.5 hours with only a short break. The night sky here is as clear as a bell as Stuart has refused to put in camp street lighting as it would spoil the amazing night views of stars and galaxies ( not the chocolate ice cream) . The couple in the caravan a short distance from us have a large, I nearly said periscope, but mean telescope and he is out there most evenings tracking stars and Air France jets.
Out of interest another couple down the road from us have beautiful cat, very similar to our daughter’s , and this cat is taken on his/her lead for a walk each day before travelling to the farthest extent of his/her lead before retiring at night in to his/her own tent.
A rather latish night for us as by the time we got back from the bar we were entering the next day, that does not auger well for us old folk!
