A cotton ball end to a lovely day...

 

This was the sky last night over La Guerche after we had returned from a lovely tasty lunch with friends over in Le Grand-Pressigny.

Sometimes you just have to,don't you?

On wednesday we did our popular 'wine run' with Dennis and Angela which took us to Bléré (Beaujardin),Chargé (Plou et Fils) and Vouvray. Above pic is how the cave 'Aubert' in Vouvray has dressed its tasting room for summer and it looked too comfortable not to try out.

We had a wee bit of trouble finding a spot for lunch enroute with our first choice Bistrot du Terminus near Amboise closed because apparently, of some 'damage'. We then decided to continue over to Vouvray to try our usual little restaurant there 'La Saint Vincent' on the Quai de la Loire in Rochecorbon only to find it closed for its holidays! We eventually ended up in 'Cafe Corbon' on Rue du Dr Lebled in Rochecorbon (above) which was new for us and it turned out to be a good choice - one to keep.

The long lunch...

Friends over for lunch in the courtyard here at La Guerche yesterday arrived 12.30 left 6.30 time flies when you are having fun!

 

Out and about in a round about way...

 

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!

Lovely lunch...

It was so nice today we were forced to eat lunch alfresco!