Voeuil-et-Giget

Wednesday 10th January 2024.

I can’t work out why they didn’t squeeze the letter “a” in the above name they have every other vowel.

We left the aire this morning and drove to Leclerc in Sainte Foy where we know from experience they have diesel at slightly lower cost, as we filled up we noticed that the pump next to us had LPG and as it is very cold at the moment and we use gas for the central heating we decided to fill up. Thank goodness we did, as we drove away from the petrol station it began to snow and has only just stopped at 7 p.m.

We were heading for Montpon which had been our home town for many years, we had booked Layla into her vets to have the compulsory worming tablet before you return to the UK. Thankfully when we took her there this afternoon she behaved extremely well and ate her tablet as though it was a wonderful treat. The 69 euro fee wasn’t a wonderful treat for me😵‍💫

Wednesday is market day and disregarding the weather we visited it, sadly as we were arriving at 11 am many of the traders were packing up as their goods were getting covered in snow.

We had to wait two hours before Layla’s vet appointment so Michelle visited the shops and amazingly didn’t buy anything and after lunch we went in Intermarche for a few bits and pieces.

As we left the vets at 2.20 pm it began to snow even more heavily we were heading north to Angouleme but after a while as the sky got darker and the snow heavier we decided to stop at an aire in Montmoreau a town we have driven through hundreds of times. The parking area was next to a river and a park and all seemed well, it even paused snowing for a while.

However it became obvious that there appeared to be a homeless person living in the toilet block along with his dog which barked a lot, after a drink we enacted the golden rule of “ if you don’t feel comfortable move on” so we did. We drove about 15 miles further north and of course it began to snow again but we managed to arrive safely. This stopover we knew as we had stopped here before whilst travelling by car, it is very attractive.