Day 16

We have never spent more than a long weekend here this time of year, so never really knew what the days would be like. We have been pleasantly surprised. Yesterday morning, after we’d done a few jobs in the house, we sat in the garden enjoying our morning coffee. The roses were still blooming and making the most of the warm day.

We needed to go into Bar-Sur-Seine to buy a SIM card, the one we had ordered from Lebara had not arrived, so we were going to endeavour to buy one from a Tabac. Brian also wanted some more ‘exploding’ screws to hang up my pot rack. That’s the only way I can describe them, you push them into a pre-drilled hole in the plasterboard, and use a kind of ratchet gun to make them flip out and bite onto the other side of the board, making a very strong hold. So we filled out our forms/permits to travel and ventured into Bar-Sur-Seine. The shops we needed were both open, and there was no-one around, so great for us. So as not to miss the opportunity, I also nipped into the boulangerie to buy some bread.

When we returned the sky was still blue, and the sun shining, so we decided to go for a walk up through the forest at the far end of the village, across the fields, then down past the ‘point de vue’. In France the rule is you can have one hours exercise outside the house per day, but you need to stay in the vicinity of your home – thankfully we have some beautiful walks right on our doorstep.