Monday, July 08, 2013

Sunday7th July- Limogne Market day

Jennifer awoke early and went for a walk whilst Noel enjoyed a few more zzz’s and then we enjoyed a bacon and egg and tomato breakfast, nothing like being in France, and then headed off to the Limogne market which was really buzzing.
This is a great little market to visit as mostly locals selling and also buying and we were able to get some nice strawberries, cherries and an excellent melon which will be devoured over the next few days.
We went to the usual café and enjoyed a beer and then in the very hot sun
Walked back to the car and headed to Carjac to see if there was a laundry as we do not want to use the site equipment which is old and we don’t want to give the owner any more cash.
A pleasant drive to Carjac and we found a newly equipped laundry which we will use in the next few days and then back for a cold sausage an bread lunch.
The afternoon comprised of swimming, going on the internet for email and then back for tea. En route back to our van Mike and Paula ( the couple from Birmingham) could not wait to tell about how the site owner had totally embarrassed  himself with a set of French regular customers who keep their caravan nearby and it was delivered last week for placing on site. Unfortunately he had placed the wrong caravan on the site and went to get theirs only to hitch it up, but not properly, and start moving only to find the caravan dropped off without his knowledge and it was blocking the road with the French couple extremely angry. Eventually he got the correct van on site and then tried to move the wrong van away and had the same problem in hitching and after moving off the van came loose and was rolling backwards uncontrolled and nearly smashed in to French couple caravan. At the same time a Dutch elderly couple arrived and he without checking properly backed his van into a tree, all of this happening within ten minutes, Mike and Paula could not stop laughing whilst the site owner had been totally embarrassed in front of 20/30 campers and went off in a huff, serve him right.
We passed British site workers who watch Andy Murray at Wimbledon and so we joined for a few minutes to see him finally win before heading home for a light tea.
Well this is the last blog for a couple of weeks as over the next two weeks we shall be just shopping, sightseeing, reading, cycling and eating and drinking and nothing really interesting for the reader.
We shall start again as we leave here to head up to Le Havre on 20st July to meet our American friends from Austin Texas with whom we shall be touring France with for ten days.
So that’s it for the moment.

Update- Just heard that site owner damaged the French couples caravan when moving it, b great..