The weather is still in the changeable mode at the moment and it rained overnight again but there were odd glimpses of the sun through the grey cloud this morning.
However we planned to visit the twn of Perigueux which is only five miles down the road and we arrived through the outskirts with it’s jumble of car dealerships and many other stores in a very commercial area and so initially we were not so impressed.
We found a car park quite easily and then walked briefly along the river and then up the side of the hil where there is this huge church which is partly under repair but it has an amazing roof line. We walked inside and thought perhaps there was a prayer meeting taking place but no and after a few minutes we came a signboard which had lists of Bible Chapters with timings and the person reading the sermon and it turns out to be a non-stop twenty four around the clock bible reading class, I suppose a bit like a religious McDonalds at Heathrow also open 24 hours a day.
We left the Church and had a quick coffee and started to walk around the old town and it is really a beautiful old town indeed. Unlike Cognac this was much much nicer and with lovely buildings and expensive shops and so there must have been money in the past and also today. There were multiple chocolate shops and also shops selling local produce.
We came across the Petit Train, which is a small train which takes visitors around the town and we have used this in other French cities and it was leaving at 1.30 pm and so we had a quick and light lunch in a bakery which made really excellent sandwiches and Noel finished off with a strawberry tart whilst Jennifer prefers not to talk about it.
We waited for the Petit Train but nobody arrived to drive it and so perhaps it’s not yet operating although there are no signs to say it will not.
So we continued our walk through the old streets and came across a wonderful ice cream parlour where we sampled the produce and the chocolate ice cream was brilliant. We looked in shops here and there and in an old bookshop there was this old’ish guy listening quietly to one of my favourite albums, Pink Floyd and ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ so I gave him the thumbs up!
This is a wonderful place to visit and would be great for a weekend with it’s lovely old buildings, super posh shops and good looking bars and restaurants and we also spotted two sex shops, wow this must be the in place.
We then headed back to car only just missing the rain and arrived back at the Caravan site where there must have been quite heavy rainfall compared to where we were. Around 6.30 the phone went to say that a glass panel in the Library of the house was damaged and so the next hour was spent with Insurance Companies, builders and family and friends telephone calls. What with this bloody Mink and now a broken glass panel, it’s not been a good week.
The rest of the evening was spent reading and catching up with emails as it was again raining but at about 9.30 pm the skies cleared and it became a nice evening, a bit late really, Oh well there’s always tomorrow.
At this moment we are using the Wifi link to upload all the photos and only 486 to go, about a half a day’s work at this slow speed Oh for my Sky Broadband connection.
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