What are the odds when you are in
France and have hardly spoken to anyone in English, and a French rental motorhome
pulls in behind us tonight. Before long there is a guy with a beer saying “Gidday
mate”! Quite amazing, Ian and Pam from Whangarei and their daughter Whitney who
has been working in France are touring around for a month. As you can imagine
we had a great evening over a vino or two catching up. The world is a small
place and you never know when a kiwi will turn up. A great end to a day.
This has been the coolest day we
have had for ages with quite a strong fresh breeze blowing. I didn’t resort to
a sweater but it was getting close. Had another good ride on the bikes this
morning, heading downriver this morning on the western side of the river
following the same bike path as yesterday. A very nice ride through a few
villages, and more orchards…scrumped a few apricots off the ground…Ian kept
riding and didn’t own me! After about 12 kms the bike path ended, this is a
section that obviously hasn’t been completed, so time to turn around. I was
ever so grateful of our electric motors as we had a really strong head wind on
the return, so turned my power up to turbo and back home in no time. Just a
breeze.
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| No blue skies today. |
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| Rapids on todays ride. |
There was some sort of
classic/vintage car show on in the centre of town when we got back. Not quite
sure what it was all about but the car park was full of all sorts of cars and
people were everywhere.
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| Not sure what this car was??? |
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| An old Renault. |
Being Sunday we had to hunt
around for a boulangerie that was open and there was only one loaf left when we
arrived early afternoon. We have really enjoyed our “enforced” 4 day stopover
here, and as Sarah and Lorraine mentioned in their comments yesterday it does
make us relax and really feel like we are getting to know this town, and does
make us feel like we are on holiday. I think we need more of these sort of
stops on our travels.
Tomorrow it will be an early
start as we need to be at Mercedes in Valence at 8am. Let’s hope they can sort
out what is going on.
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| The kiwi neighbours. |
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| Whitney, Pam and Ian - all the way from Whangarei! |
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| The wee church on the hill tonight, with a few clouds. |
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| A bit of double exposure play with my vase of wildflowers. |
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