I am amused, looking back over my Facebook memories for today, at how very often I have felt the need to comment on the weather, which has varied from "I wish I'd packed sandals and a sunhat" to snow falling horizontally! That's March! Today in Aquitaine, however, it has been mostly sunny with a few showers, and not as warm as it looks!
We decided that we would like to go to Church if we could find an English-speaking one that wasn't too far out of our way. Turns out that the Aquitaine Chaplaincy has several services each Sunday in various places, and the one in what turned out to be the tiny village of Monteton was not too far off our planned route. So we went.
I don't know how they decide where to hold services, but this was a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. I suppose it must depend on whether they can rent the use of a church on at least one Sunday a month, and if enough people live near enough to make it worth while. There were about 30 people there, all White, all retired (including the minister, who obviously had arthritis and found standing difficult), and two dogs! The sermon was fairly standard Evangelical stuff, how we are supposed to witness and bear fruit etc etc etc, and Communion was by intinction. I wasn't sure why, because there was perfectly someone to administer the cup, but maybe they got into the habit during the pandemic. Anyway, it was good to worship with God's people (and dogs) today.
We didn't stay long after church as they were to have their Annual Meeting, just time to have a cup of tea and chat briefly to people. We then decided to drive on non-motorway roads, stopping in a random Lidl car-park for lunch. The Swan Whisperer wanted to see the Gironde, so we drove over to a village just south of Blaye, and then drove on here to Cartelègue where we stayed two years ago but didn't look round the village because it was too cold. Far less cold this year, so we shall have an explore tomorrow.
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