Quite a busy
week this time although hardly eventful. We spent a lrge portion of the time
getting ready to go away for two weeks – something I am really looking forward
to. Apart from the fact that we will be in heated accommodation which will be
amazing, we will also have both the grand-daughters with us and I will be seeing
my sister again.
The week
didn’t start off all that auspiciously as we had the heaviest snowfall of the
season on Tuesday and we also received a call from the school on Tuesday
telling us that Courtney was not well and would we please come a fetch her. That
wouldn’t have been a problem normally, except that the night before had been
exceptionally cold and the car would not start without the help of the
neighbours car and jump leads. There had also been a plan to go and fetch more
firewood that day but by the time we had sorted the other problems the weather
had put a stop to that plan.
However, by
Wednesday we were back on track and I was desperately trying to get washing
done and dried to take away with us. I described before what a tedious
business it is, but , one way and
another we managed to end up with enough clean and dry clothes to take away for
two weeks.
As the first
week was to be self-catering, we also had to buy in some groceries and to make
a large pot of curry which I then froze to take with us. We also made a double
batch of ever-popular rusks and hoped they wouldn’t get finished on the first
day!
On Friday
evening Courtney arrived back from school by bus as usual and Andre arrived
with Cassidy. We had arranged for him to come with us and spend the first night
in our self-catering cottage, and so the next morning we set off in convoy for
St Felix la Villadeix in the Dordogne. We had asked our GPS to select the
shortest route, forgetting that she always ends up taking short-cuts through
farmlands and making use of less than desirable roads. Anyway, it was very
scenic, but I doubt that we would choose that route again. Quite near the end
of the trip we were expecting to drive through a small town and then our
destination was about ten kilometres further on. Hoever, when we got to that
point, there was a large notice informing us that the route was ‘barree’ –
closed. Andre and Courtney who were in one car, had found an alternative route
along the river, so off we went again, only to find our way barred yet again,
this time by the river which had burst its banks and completely inundated the
road. This was obviously the result of the heavy rains of earlier in the month,
during which Paris, among other cities, was flooded. We thought we had had rain
but we had nothing like this. It took us little while but eventually we found a
way around the obstruction and could finally get to our destination. This was
the Village of Constant, a Holiday Property Bond resort. The company bought a
whole village some years ago and spent time restoring the houses and doing the
gardens and now it is perfectly charming, with each house or part thereof,
becoming accommodation for the members and their guests. Although we explored
some of this area when we travelled in the caravan we haven’t ever been to this
exact part of the Dordogne , so we are looking forward to getting out and about.
No comments:
Post a Comment