Friday night’s visit to the Fiddler’s Rest was interesting with its clientele of English expats and local French. The food was very good if a little pricey however, I could not fault the fish and chips, it was quite amusing seeing Frenchmen drinking Guinness but the chiller had been turned down to cater to their tastes.
Saturday saw us leave Le Moulin Neuf and make a zigzag journey through the countryside to our new home for the next seven days near Savignac de Miremont. We stopped off at Sarlat to explore and visit the market which is huge, so much bigger than the reputed ‘largest in the Dordogne’ at Riberac. Again there was a high proportion of English vices and I mean English not British, in fact I have not met or heard an Irish, Scottish or Welsh person or accent over here. I am going to go back again when the market isn’t on to explore some more.
The accommodation seems to get better and better, I am now the only guest in a barn conversion, my cottage has a downstairs comprising a lounge kitchen with French windows leading onto my patio overlooking the swimming pool and extensive countryside views, upstairs there is a large bedroom with en-suite bathroom and the property is at the end of a country lane so the only things I heard last night were the local wildlife. I have just had dinner on the patio but it is getting cool so time to come in for dessert.
Today I went on a search for Vide-Greniers or what we call boot sales, I found two of the three I was looking for, they are very similar to the UK variety and not from what I could see as sites to pick up bargains as touted by BBC antiques programmes in fact their prices were more expensive the British boot sales and the dealers nowhere near as gullible as we would be lead to believe.
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