Thursday 14th December 2023
Our journey today was to take us from last nights stopover to our old home town of Montpon where a year ago we sold our house. We set off on a wonderful straight smooth road and after 5 miles it said “road ahead closed take the deviation.” We did it took us along narrow twisty country roads for miles and of course the deviation signs soon ran out.
After that everything went reasonably well especially as we were eventually on roads we knew well and had been driving for over 30: years. That is until we came to within 1 km of our destination of Montpon, the road was closed due to flooding of the River L’isle no access to the bridge and we had to take a 15 km detour to get back to just the other side of the bridge.
The purpose of our visit was to take Layla to our French vets so that she could have her rabies booster which needed to be done and recorded on her French Pet Passport. The vet was superb, normally Layla goes a little mad and snaps at the vet when she sees the needle but he was so good she didn’t even know she had had it, well worth 48 euros.
Not only did Layla need medication but so did Michelle ( no sadly not at the vets) her cold has worsened again and she was having sinus pain so it was another trip to the pharmacy where we managed to obtain some tablets for her.
Our last journey of the day was down the valley to Libourne but we did deviate back to our ex neighbours house to deliver her Christmas card. As we approached Libourne Michelle guiding, she told me to take a right turn, after 2 km the road was closed due to flooding, as was the next one we tried, the third led us along a narrow dry road just the width of Homer and it then dipped down and there was a short tunnel under the railway that only gave us 10cm headroom it was a wincing experience.
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