3rd September 2022

A shorter trip today and drove to Jen and Bev’s new (to us) home. In 2020 they had moved some 4 miles from their previous home which we had visited a few times before. On the way, I filled up the van. Morrison had achieved over 600 miles on the tank with plenty more to go. Found fuel at 179 euro a litre, significantly cheaper than the UK. Later we found if you filled at Total, the price was down to less than 160 euro a litre.

Rosemary has known Jen since school days (ie a long time). Amazingly they still have much to talk about.

Lottie their dog entertained us all by chasing one of her balls as we admired the many small birds on the feeders. Mad creature wants you to throw her ball. Unfortunately, she never quite brings the ball back to you to throw. It was exercising the humans, who had to get up and retrieve the ball to be thrown again. A Labrador puppy should be arriving late September, so Lottie will have a young dog to teach. Jen also feeds a couple of stray cats, but at night, so they rarely see them.

We went out for a quick snack lunch in a local village. Coming back, we set up the van for the night in their driveway.

Later in the evening we went for dinner at Auberge de la Vallée de la Gorre in Saint-Auvent.

Both the restaurants we visited were British owned and run. As you can see, the Auberge had a stock of English beers for the Brits.