Tuesday 9th January 2024
After saying our farewells to Alison and Peter we left Capbreton and drove north towards Bordeaux most of it in motorway conditions and several sections were peage, thankfully we eventually turned off and took the Bergerac road which led to tonights stopover.
This village is just outside Sainte Foy La Grande and I have over the past 30 odd years driven through the village numerous times but had never noticed this aire.
This image was taken mid afternoon, later on three more motorhomes arrived the one next to us is British.
Homer was full of sand and things weren’t in their correct places as we have moved so much in the past 6 days so Michelle enjoyed an hour or so doing housework. Layla wasn’t well last night we think she had swallowed loads of sea water but thankfully as we arrived at this stopover she perked up. After a coffee we went for a walk around the village it didn’t take long there is very little here.
Both Peter and Alison and ourselves have commented that as soon as we crossed the border into France we immediately felt at home, everything is so familiar, we can understand what is written and have a reasonable attempt to hold a conversation.
In the information above it does have an English explanation about the bell but unfortunately I can’t enlarge it. From memory it went along the lines that approx 100 years ago it was decreed it shouldn’t be rung unless it was remounted on a church and then only rung for one time.
I had sent Alison a WhatsApp message to say we had arrived and she responded with a message to say they had found an aire and had been to a boulangerie for bread and cakes, well when we discovered the above I couldn’t resist going in and buying us a treat to have after our evening meal.
Very nice they were too.
taraabit 