Towards Bordeaux

We sat outside under cover and ate our quiche and salads, washed down with a lovely Provence rose, in the company of a few French smokers, outside an F1. It was pouring with rain but eventually eased a little and there was a rainbow, must be a good sign!

Next day we decided to head for Bergerac, close to the city of Bordeaux but not too close! Again we drove through beautiful countryside and lovely villages, many of which were preparing for festivities, a music festival in one, probably Bastille day in others.


This gives a little bit of an idea of what they are like. Note how close the buildings are to what is the main road through the town. Also note the blue sky (and heat) returned - briefly!



On the way we passed about 40 classic Citreons, mostly identitcal, a weekend car rally maybe.

We found that the tourist information centre had free wifi (hence the last blog), and lots of good information about local attractions and hotels. We headed back out of town


to a little village called La Forte and a cute pub. Our room is the middle of three opening out onto the balcony above. The other two were vacant so we had the whole balcony to ourselves, and a room with ensuite for not much more than the F1!

No one speaks much English, so Ann is beginning to get bolder with her efforts, which is bringing smiles and usually results. When that fails we use her iPhone app, like today when we went into a pharmacy, pushed play and the phone said, in French, to the assistant, "I'd like to buy something for insect bites". She giggled, went away and found just what we needed!


As usual, we had to try out the tap beer, probably only once in this case.

;-) Ann-a-Gram