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| Hundreds of acres of sunflowers. |
After the excitement of yesterday
today has been much lower key, and it has been very grey all day with spits of
rain. The morning was taken up with mundane things, we needed a trip to the
supermarket, exchange our gas cyclinder and find an Orange store to buy some
more data.
Spent some time online and found
a Leclerc megastore in Periguex, about 30 minutes’ drive away, which had an
Orange outlet store, a perfect place as they are also a huge supermarket. No
problems getting there and parking as a huge carpark. It was like a big mall
inside and found the Orange store, know now to take my previous top up form
which saves me trying to explain in French what I need, and it was organised
very simply. The supermarket was HUGE, just so many choices of everything but
there is no way you can do it quickly as you need to check every aisle to find
where things are. Realise why I like the smaller stores in the villages!
And we could replace our gas cylinder
in their fuel area. Talk about one stop shopping! We purchased a 13 kg French
propane bottle at the start of this trip and now just exchange it, the prices
vary but today we only paid €29, and this lasts us from 3 to 4 weeks. It runs
the fridge, freezer, oven and water heating and as we very seldom are hooked up
to electricity I don’t think that is too bad.
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| Great graffiti art. |
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| Clever! |
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| This water tower had amazing 3D artwork. |
We are heading towards Ile
d’Oleron on the West Coast, but found a really well reviewed French Passion
site which is also close to a Voie Verte bike trail. I managed with the help of
Jilly to navigate through some of the lesser roads to Reignac which took us
through great little villages and more wonderful rolling countryside, with
patches of trees surrounded by cultivated land. Today we passed by so many
really large fields of sunflowers, bright patches of yellow in amongst the
green maize and the brown barley fields making a real patchwork. Surely France
must supply the world with sunflower seeds!
Tonight, has been a real find, we
are parked in the carpark of Lerisson Gourmand with wonderful views looking
over the fields in a walnut orchard. They have a great setup for campers with
water, electricity, waste dump and even free wifi. Visited the shop which not
only stocks their walnuts and walnut products but lots of local produce
including cognac. The owner was so welcoming with her limited English but we
fully understood each other. Bought some of her wonderful walnut cookies along
with a cognac pate and some local wine! And we are the only campers here.
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| Young walnut trees, laden with fruit. |
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| A great little store. |
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| Quite the view. |
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| This large bee was like a miniature humming bird. |
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| What a spot for dinner. |
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