I forgot to mention about the roads from Carlucet to Boussac and that we did about 200 miles or so and the amount of traffic was absolutely minimal and you would have to work hard to find a traffic jam of two or more cars. Most of France is on holiday at this time and many shops; restaurants etc are closed as the owners have packed their bags and headed off and just about every factory you see is also closed for the month.
Anyway this sun was shining this morning quite nicely and although the camp site is considerably busier than last time we were here about a month ago its not to bad. We did some shopping in the local Carrefour Market for all the essentials and then headed back for a day of reading and walking. Although the drive from Carlucet was fairly simple to follow we had not watched the outside temperature gauge and noticed the increasing temp and then we suddenly realised how warm it was and switched on the aircon.
The troubles of the Fair FX prepaid master card following Noels quick intervention to Chateau Lecomte and also FairFX on Monday night had resulted by late evening all the money being returned to the card, thank god for that as we did not want to use a normal credit card where the banks use unrealistic, some may say extortionate, exchange rates.
So after watching the kids flood back from the pool at around 6pm we had an excellent rib steak carved in to strips and marinated for a while and then quickly fried and then placed on top of lettuce with a tomato salad and a glass or two of Bordeaux Red plonk. All very nice.
The rest of the evening was spent reading, looking at route maps and finally a very long walk around the campsite lake and then a couple of times round the site to see who is there and generally be a little nosy. There are mostly Brits and Dutch here and they outnumber the French by about ten to one.
Depending on the weather tomorrow we will take a trip out somewhere but we need some diesel for the car. We always have to remember that on Motorways the service stations are always very large and a large outfit like ours, about 12 metres, needs a little space to pull up. However some of the non motorway garages are much smaller and you can just about get a large car in.
And so to bed.
