Saturday
7th September
After
a slow start we headed to the Fontenay-Le-Comte market. Our main aim for the
day, other than a spot of lunch, was to pick up some supplies for an
Australian barbeque that Julian and I were organising the next day.
This was our way of saying thank-you to the Harveys for having us,
and also as a way to have a day just sitting around doing very
little. We all needed that.
I’ve
come to the conclusion that I can travel, with fairly busy days, for
about four weeks before I hit the wall. After that it starts to
become a tad tedious. Maybe it’s the constant movement, or the
information overload, but after 28 days or so I’ve had enough and
want a rest doing absolutely nothing. We couldn’t really do that on
this trip so we aimed for the next best thing and stayed with friends
who weren’t going to make our days too hectic.
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| The market street |
A
wander around a market is always a good thing, checking out the
street food (a lot of Asian here), cheeses (all types for Robyn
though I’m a bit more picky), and meat on offer. I went wandering
with Julian – another change method, walking around with someone
else.
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| Baskets everywhere |
We
found the meat section up a set of stairs and proceeded to buy some
sausages, chicken skewers and pork. We then went looking or the
others and found them in a small café, with some drinking coffee and
others having a glass of wine. Julian and I settled for a beer or two
before we moved on to the supermarket where we’d rented the car.
Suitably
provisioned – though Robyn had great difficulty finding the right
sort of cream she needed for the pavlova she was planning - we headed
back to chez Harvey for another drink, and a snooze.
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| Eve, John, Mike and Pat take it easy |
In
the evening John fired up his wood-fired pizza oven in the garden
(all my fault apparently) and after dinner people drifted off to bed as sleep
beckoned.
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| Robyn gets snoozy |
A
quiet day. And a good one.
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