Sunday 7
October 2012 Navarrenx France
Today
there was a large car boot sale in main square by church which lasted all day.
Lynds bought a large (20 cm diameter by 20 cm high) glass fruit dish for €4
just what you don’t need to carry across
the world on an aeroplane. But she had to have it! I didn’t buy anything
despite the number of leather coats on offer.
Comment –Quite
a bit of Garage sale/car boot sale/market stuff is the same mass of Chinese
plastic junk in France as in Takapuna or England.
Same
time as the garage sale was going on there were dozens of people were attending
mass at the quite large village church at the other end of the square. There is
a church school in the village as well as an Ecole Publique.
Bread and fig jam
for lunch. We have about 1/5th
of the 980 gm jar of fig jam acquired in Nice still to eat and just 6 days to
do it in, quell horreur !!
Long
siesta and reading
Walk by
river then into the car and explored all
roads out of town, about 5, couple of them just merge into next village. A few
very tight corners.
Back to
cabin for glass of red and nibbles then off to Auberge de Bois for dinner which
is about 1 km out of centre of village.
Deal is
that you walk in and sit down at any of the 10 long tables either inside or out
on the deck and madame brings you about 5 courses of plats du jour plus whole
bottle of red or rose or white gets plonked down in front of you too. We had
vegetable consommé, then 3 thin slices of Jambon de Bayonne ( red air dried/cured salted ham of this
region, a bit like prosciutto) with
white cheese, then ¼ roasted duck with
enough chips to feed an army, followed by a choice of “Tiptop” ice creams and
coffee. All for €10 per head. Since this place is legendary and from what we
had heard I expected that that madame would be a jolly elderly lady, however she must be at least 10
years younger than me but is a bit stooped, not jolly and wears an over the
head long apron/smock and socks and
slippers !!
A grand
evening was had by all and when we arrived back at camp the car gate was locked
and we had to leave car outside.
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