Had breakfast at the hotel and strode out at 9.30 to see why the road will be closed today. Practically half the town has become a giant flea market with what must be about 200 stalls set up along the roads, selling (or trying to) the usual rubbish you get at car boot sales. Especially in evidence was the amount of electronic equipment not 10 years old but all obsolete. We spent 1 ½ hours looking around at it all, then coffee and then finished our tour of the ramparts. Our lunch was two baguettes from the patisserie with the chatty lady “au bon pain”.
During the afternoon we uploaded onto the blog to keep our fans happy.
There is a festival of Hallebardiers ? tonight to look at. These turned out to be a group of about 50 people dressed in traditional old clothes who walked around the town singing and generally having a good time.
We ate at the hotel and the food was excellent – Tony had Beef Bourguignonne and Jane had lamb shank and we shared a gateau avec crème anglais for pudding. An English family came into the restaurant while we were there and as one of the little lads, about 5 years old, passed our table he helped himself to a piece of our bread. His parents were mortified that Oscar (yes Oscar!) had done such a thing. Lovely evening.
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| Our hotel. Good food here. |
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