Seeing straight

We were up early yesterday, as we were driving down to Dijon for the day. It’s such a beautiful city about 1 hour and 40 minutes from us, which is fine for a day trip. Beautiful old cobbled streets, quaint little shops, museums, and plenty to see and do. Today though we were not there as tourists.

Our first appointment was at the ophthalmologist. In France you can have your eyes checked each year, however we had left it two years as all seemed ok, but we both felt we were now ready for a slight revision in our glasses. We parked just near the clinic in a beautiful, tree lined, perfectly straight avenue. It looks like this will be where they start one of the legs of the Tour de France in the summer.

The clinic is super slick, within a modern building and the latest equipment. We were taken straight in, and soon were having our eyes checked and photographed, ready to see the doctor, who advised all was well with the health of our eyes, but confirmed we were both in need for a slight revision to our glasses prescription. We would take this ‘ordnance’ to an optician’s near us to choose the glasses.

We then headed to a paint shop we had found online and arranged to visit to have some colours mixed for us. The lady at the shop was extremely helpful, and we had soon chosen our colours and decided to use the ‘dead flat’ paint base, as this would provide a better finish with the hand painted leaves Brian has planned to include in the library.

Before we drove out to visit the Castorama store, just on the outskirts, we took a little time to wander through the streets of Dijon and find a lovely little bistro for a simple bavette et frites lunch and, of course, some Dijon mustard. Simply delicious.