So here we are again, packing up ready for the next place! We have had a really great two weeks here with Jan and Dave, been totally spoilt with lovely food, wine and beer and the cosy little flat that we have been living in. Have learnt absolutely no French and communication has been nice and easy. Definitely time to move on!
We had 1 1/2 days off last weekend and went to Montpellier on a wet and miserable Saturday. Very cool place indeed, with a nice cheap and easy tram from the park and ride into the centre of town. Had a great meal at “L’assiette de boeuf” – being a non meat eater I wasn’t immediately drawn to this particular place, but it was raining hard, it was 2pm and they had salmon on the set 11 Euro menu. What a find! Very lovely lunch swashed down with half a litre of red, fantastic. Pedestrianised streets meant that we could comply to Tegan’s demands of “walk” and the rain eased off, so all was well.
The next day we went to the Cirque du Navaselles – beautiful valley in a gorge, rather breathtaking I would say. It’s a sort of ox-bow lake type feature. We walked along the gorge for a bit and had a picnic by the river, all very civilised. And we found a stick – a small non-descript piece of wood that we got Tegan to throw in the water so we could watch it float down stream. She wasn’t particularly interested in it after that but it somehow provided some great entertainment for Andy and I, trying to help move it down the river. Little things on a sunny afternoon………………………………..!
Cirque du Navaselles
And left a bit down the valley!
The rest of the week has seen us carrying on with lots of collecting wood, clearing bushes and setting fire to things, I think we have both quite enjoyed this, as it feels quite satisfying. Maybe we both have repressed tidy streaks in us! We also put Tegan to work again doing some more weeding (she’s good at that as long as you keep a very close eye on what she pulls up!) and stacking small logs which she did seem to get quite in to.
Helene feeding the bracken fire.
Tegan’s helping with the log stacking (more like stick stacking I suppose!).
Tegan examining some more piles of wood.
And yet more wood!
I ended the day today with clearing the leaves out of the swimming pool – if we ever build a swimming pool (thinking the chances are slim to zero on this one) best not to do it under loads of trees with big leaves. All looks quite easy to clean, but the leaves didn’t comply with my chasing them with a giant sieve thing. Not one of my most successful exploits. Andy managed to break the prong off a garden fork whilst digging up a bramble bush – those muscles……………!
Off to near Amelie des Bains (nearish Perpignan) tomorrow although will be staying the night in Carcassonne on the way so we can check it out.
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