Yesterday was Pauline's first day out of the house for a week as she was confined due to contracting the virus. Negative test in the morning convinced us it was safe to put ourselves back out there! We had a lot of admin work to catch up on due to our change of address . Pauline had successfully handled electricity, UK pensions, CIPAV and insurances and we were in Loches to deal with Orange (2nd visit), impot, water and trying to find a way to fix a detail on Pauline's driving licence, which she found during a paperwork clear-out after being lost for some time. So first stop the impot (tax) office, straightforward enough, then over to the sub prefecture in the same building who handle driving licences but not it seems for changes,for that you have to go online!
We had decided to treat ourselves to lunch at the swish new hotel in town but found ourselves with a little time to kill. As we are thinking about changing our car we headed down to the Renault garage in the town. Sales chap was busy dealing with another client so took our details to send some options via email. Still with time to kill we headed over to where we thought our water was handled from but when we arrived there was a notice to say they had moved - guess where?, just along from the garage!! As it happens although they handle the water at La Guerche the water at Barrou is handled from Monnaie just north of Tours!!!
Enjoyed lunch at the hotel and decided it would be good to join friends on the terrace on a lovely sunny day for lunch in the future.
After lunch it was over to an appointment with Orange where we were handled by the super efficient Thomas who has sorted many a problem for us over the last five years (it was his 5th anniversary in the job on Monday) but we often wonder what he thinks when he sees the mad Scottish couple arriving on his doorstep!
