It was
grey and overcast again this morning as we left the site going South via
Nontron to Brantone where we arrived around 11.30, just in time for a cup of
coffee in this very nice little town which is located right next to a river. We
were parked very close to the fire
station and firemen were getting their hoses out but we continued looking up
river where there was a group of guys in canoes were heading down river towards
the firemen who then turned on their hoses and covered the canoeists with great
showers of water. The hoses were so powerful it was pushing the canoes to the
side of the river, clearly this was a planned exercise but fun to watch.
We had a
cup of coffee and then walked around town and noticed that there was a boat
trip available later at about 2pm and so continued walking then had lunch
followed by not a bad ice cream and then went back to the landing stage to find
the boat trip had been moved to 4pm. Oh well better luck next time.
We drove
around and visited another site that we had seen on the web and it was not bad
with the exception of a group of six Brits boozing away outside their tent with
the music going full blast, not sure why the neighbours did not complain as I
would have.
Leaving
town at about 2.30 it started to rain a little and then later quite a lot and
we headed for Martheon which looked like an interesting place to visit but with
the heavy rain not today. We continued along some of the smaller roads and
noticed there were lots of security people standing around as their appeared to
be a cycle race of some sort but we did not see any cyclists anywhere. When we
got back to Montron there was a little stage set up for a presentation it
appeared to be.
Once
home in our van we had a nice cup of tea and as our plans for a BBQ had been
thwarted by the weather once again we decided just to have the sausages and
some French type baked beans and then we gave in and got some ‘frites’ from the
takeaway.
We
watched mission impossible tonight whilst the rain clattered down, the Irish
girl serving the bar and takeaway said it would improve tomorrow but let’s see
as the weather has been a complete disappointment.
Tomorrow
will be an easy day getting ready for our departure on Monday morning to
Larnagol in the Lot Valley.
NO PHOTOS UPLOADED THIS WEEK AS THE INTERNET CONNECTION IS VERY SLOW
AN ALSO EXPENSIVE HERE. SHOULD BE BETTER NEXT WEEK WE HOPE