The Swan Whisperer went for a run round Lac Saint-Cyr this morning - only about 5k, but he enjoyed it. Look at the daisies on the grass, not a very good photo, but they really were daisies!
After a rather late breakfast, we headed on to the nearest supermarket - not that I needed much, but we like to treat ourselves to patisseries for lunch pudding on a Sunday (these were apple tarts, and very good they were, too) when we are travelling. By the time we had done all that, it was noon, and we tried to listen to our church service while driving on, but the sound quality was dreadful - I don't think it would have been had we been listening on a laptop or even a phone via headphones, but on a phone which was then Bluetoothed to the car radio.... Not good! Still, we enjoyed the hymns.
We stopped for lunch soon after the service had finished, and then continued on down to this tiny village of Verteillac, which is really rather nice. After a cup of tea, we went round it to see what we could see. The Sunday market was just finishing when we arrived, but really by the time it had spread itself over two squares and the car park, that was basically the end of the village! Nice church, though!
It is very nice here; there are services, although you have to pay for water and/or an hour's electricity (useful for charging up a recalcitrant battery, but I don't think we'll need it); emptying services are free.
We are basically a day ahead of ourselves, as I tried to send us down a route that What's Halfway suggested for the four nights we had changed plans, but the first place was in the middle of the Aquitaine floods, and thus closed out of use. And the Swan Whisperer pointed out that this place was the exact same distance from Lac Saint-Cyr as the place I'd chosen, and it was two sides of a triangle. So we will either get to Mas Alart a day early, or spend two nights at one of the two stopping-places en route. We shall see..... We decided that going up into the Pyrenees and spending the night in a non-winterised motor home was seriously not a plan!
Meanwhile the hab door is playing sillybuggers again; the Swan Whisperer has tried to fix it, but no joy so far. We will ring our motorhome place in Sussex to see what they recommend, or there might, of course, be a repair place locally. On verra.
P.S. Am rather annoyed - I bought a new set of pill-dispensers because they were rather lovely and I need a new set anyway, only to find that two of the lids broke as I was taking them off to fill with my week's pills! Dreadful quality!
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