France 2015 continued

Day 3 -

Well that proved to be a rather good day!   On arrival at 'Kathy & Dave's' www.camping-kathydave.co.uk, we were welcomed by Ilene & Derek who were one of the other two campers here at this lovely orchard site.   Kathy & Dave had popped out but left full instructions, EHU etc. - choose where you'd like to go we were told - lovely jubbly!

Kathy & Dave soon arrived back and invited all of us to a wine-tasting in the village - we did not need any time to think about it.... BUT before the 'official' wine tasting we went wine tasting with everyone else in their own private bar - a lovely way to meet and greet and gel with other campers.

Now 'wine tasting' UK style is a thimble full in the bottom of the glass - 'wine tasting' en France at Domaine de la Petite Ville is more like 'drink-as-much-as-you-can tasting' . Seven glasses of superb wine and two Champagnes were sampled.  Alain the Vintner, who looked like a very young Poirot was the perfect host and just kept filling them up!   Now I'm a little fussy about my wine but all were superb and very reasonable at 2.90-5.35 euros a bottle.   Of course, after all the effort it would be rude not to buy some.....

Day 4 - 

Thick cloud today but still warm enough for t-shirts.   As it's Saturday we thought we'd better stock up for the weekend and do a little bit of site-seeing at the same time.  Now when you plan to go off site a little planning has to be done - you can't just 'jump in' and go - of course, we were well aware of this when we started our travels.   We both know just what needs to be done and we've got it down to about 15 minutes.   It's also best to do as many things in one go rather than back and forth -  so today it was a trip to the Village Troglodytique at Rochemenier www.troglodyte.fr.   We were both under the impression that Troglodyte's were little people that lived in caves, but you'll see by the size of these clogs that they were far from little.   They were simply a village of people who lived in caves - a sort of commune.   Everything there was manmade and it was quite interesting to see how they lived right up until the 19th century.