The weather did change a lot overnight and it started to rain about 04.15 in the morning at which time I remembered that not all windows on the car were shut and Jennifer remembered the towels on the washing rack were also outside and so Joe soap was out in the rain closing car windows and moving washing about. Afterwards lying in a warm bed listening to the rain on the roof of the caravan is a really nice feeling.
As a grey day outside was set we decided to take a drive in the country but needed to go to Gramat at first to fill up with diesel as otherwise our journey could have been cut short. After about 90 minutes driving down country lanes we ended up in Cahors for a Pizza lunch and then a search for an Internet cafe. You may well remember the saga of the George Clooney film which did not work, well I got back on to Amazon and they will swap it free of charge providing the original film is back in their hands by 31 st July. You are required to print out a label and also another document to travel with the returned product. So we needed the Internet cafe for the label printing as well as a shop selling envelopes as well as a post office. Needless to say the various shops are all at each ends of the town and so after about one and a half hours fairly fast walking and asking a number of people where to go, we finally achieved our goal.
Our original plan was to come back via one of the supermarkets and top up our food supplies and also buy some fish for tonight but quite frankly the pizza's we had in Cahors really filled us and so no dinner tonight. Cahors is a very nice old and quite historic town with beautiful buildings set alongside the river and is one of our favourite larger towns in this area. We have been coming here for over 20 years and have vested the Lot region at least ten times and we still enjoy this area enormously
We drove back to the Chateau via the banks of the River Lot and noticed at the bridge in Cahors they have turned a spare piece of ground in to a beachside play area with relaxer chairs and umbrellas and an area for swimming and also changing rooms etc, what a great idea.
Our journey home took us via Vers and then North through the hills and rocky mountain sides and we got back about 6.15 as it started to rain again. So an evening of reading and blogging is planned whilst sitting nice and warm in the van listening to rain falling down.
Let's hope tomorrow is a better day weather wise.
