Confinement three

Today our department of the Aube went back into lockdown. It isn’t much different for us, except we need to take an attestation out with us again when we go out, and we cannot travel out of our region or further than 10 kms from home. This will be in place for four weeks before being reviewed. That said, we have plenty to keep us occupied over the coming month both indoors and outside.

Yesterday we nipped to our local Intermarche in Bar-sur-Seine to stock up on a few supplies. There is no panic buying in France, everyone just does things as they normally do. There would also have to be some dramatic buying to reduce the huge choice of yoghurts - natural, fruit, bio, local, regional, alternative to milk etc. And since being in France, Brian has got a real taste for a vanilla yoghurt, so that’s a good thing.

We also visited the market, and bought some beautiful looking veg, and pleurotte mushrooms, we will have these simply fried on toast. A couple of chocolate eclairs, filled with a chocolate crème pâte also made their way home, they are nicely packaged ready to be carefully unwrapped and enjoyed with a cup of Earl grey tea.