The gîte is very nice, very rural, with stone walls and a tiled roof, and a mezzanine area for the bedroom (see photo below with clever camera trick of putting two photos together which I discovered in the idle moments that you get on holiday, given that I never read the instruction booklet, and which I am deploying to irritating effect). I think the gîte must be converted from an old barn. Out back there is a kitchen garden with peaches,damsons and greengages, and various other produce - I have already had to prevent S from going into 'Peter Rabbit' mode for fear of the gendarmerie. We also have a gîte cat which S has befriended
Today was a rest day of laundering our camping-tainted gear and drying the tent. Exploration of Chaillac was completed in two hours after lunch - it's small, and two roads extend in the general direction of the river but both to dead ends, one ending under a railway bridge and the other at a railway crossing before reaching the river. However, I will mention one thing in passing: SNCF, in a zeal of health and safety (unusually for France) had unaccountably placed warning signs for the railway crossing on both sides, the curious thing being that one of the signs pointed toward a dead end from whence no traffic was ever destined to emerge as evidenced below which shows both ends of the road (top and bottom).
S is preparing the evening meal of boeuf bourguignon while I sip an ice cold beer on the terrace, working hard on this missive. The only faint tinge of gloom on the horizon are the mozzie attacks, but I guess you can't have it all . . .
Bon soir
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Hi Sian, the gite looks idyllic - hope you and Hywel are getting the chance to relax as well as all that cycling (phew!).
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you are having better weather than us so you will just have to put up with those pesky mozzies!
Enjoy!!
Jan xxxx