Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The Hard Life
Our wonderful hosts have left us access to their computer so I will be able to update the blog frequently except when we are on the bike trip. They left today and we have the house to ourselves--except for a small white kitten. The kitten wandered in (was dropped off?) a few weeks before they left and Chris has been unable to find another home for her. So we are catsitting until they return. Mostly that means feed her--she is an outside kitten. Anyone want a really nice kitten?
Yesterday was a very social day--we met a lot of their friends--all English speakers. Hannah who is German and lives round the corner wants to sell her house in a few years. It is VERY old French. Kit is ready to buy it but I don't think I'm ready to fly to France every year. Hannah is taking us to the start of the bike tour on Saturday. We have already been to Pezanas (the town where we start) as it is the closest big shopping area to us here. Today Kit and I had a practice bike ride on borrowed bikes. The wind was fierce. We went fine into the wind and back and then decided to take a back way home (Richard showed us on the map). First we found the dump, then decided that was the wrong way. We thought we were lost several times but found helpful people to ask and we were on the right track. The main roads are very smooth but these were rough and rocky tracks. We did make it back eventually.
Later this afternoon we went to visit the winery which is just around the corner. We bought an "expensive for France" wonderful red. Some other day we'll go back to taste the pinks. Luckily the woman there spoke excellent English so we could talk wine talk. Guess I should mention that it is harvest time here. There are big picking machines in the fields and on the roads are always tractors pulling wagon loads of grapes. If the grower is not a winery, the grapes go to the cooperative in Pezanas.
Yesterday was a very social day--we met a lot of their friends--all English speakers. Hannah who is German and lives round the corner wants to sell her house in a few years. It is VERY old French. Kit is ready to buy it but I don't think I'm ready to fly to France every year. Hannah is taking us to the start of the bike tour on Saturday. We have already been to Pezanas (the town where we start) as it is the closest big shopping area to us here. Today Kit and I had a practice bike ride on borrowed bikes. The wind was fierce. We went fine into the wind and back and then decided to take a back way home (Richard showed us on the map). First we found the dump, then decided that was the wrong way. We thought we were lost several times but found helpful people to ask and we were on the right track. The main roads are very smooth but these were rough and rocky tracks. We did make it back eventually.
Later this afternoon we went to visit the winery which is just around the corner. We bought an "expensive for France" wonderful red. Some other day we'll go back to taste the pinks. Luckily the woman there spoke excellent English so we could talk wine talk. Guess I should mention that it is harvest time here. There are big picking machines in the fields and on the roads are always tractors pulling wagon loads of grapes. If the grower is not a winery, the grapes go to the cooperative in Pezanas.
# posted by Carol Harma @ 11:43 AM 
