Meyrals

Friday 31/05/19

Bokkie is relaxing alongside a gite complex (5 self catering cottage, 3 self catering apartments and the owners' house, a converted barn) which luckily has no guests at the moment (other than us😊).

We had a lovely visit from Charmaine who is in the final push before her exams.  It was nice for her to get away from the flat for a few days and get Mom's cooking to help the brain cope - and so lovely for us to see her again.  Picking up and dropping off from Bergerac was a doddle, much simpler at such a small airport.

On Saturday we popped in to show her the magic of the Sarlat market and, once again, it didn't disappoint.  The weather has been quite changeable as you can see from the photos, misty mornings, rain, thundershowers and no, at last, glorious wall-to-wall sunshine.  Pool time!

The gorgeous Meg, what a lovely dog

Sunshine on the left, thundershowers on the right.
Hope the path leads us to the left!

Grass, grass, everywhere...

Meyrals church 

Morning routine - long walks with Meg

We can't even remember when last we swam in a pool.

We have been taking long walks every day with Meg, the rescue dog (we think Collie/Lab mix) who has the most fantastic nature - we're all getting fitter on this sit.  I have managed to get a good dose of gardening in, strimming around the trees in the orchard (pears, apples, plums, walnuts and everything else you can imagine) and mowing the many lawns.  House-sitting has been a very interesting experience for us - we get to test drive different lives, pets, houses and appliances.  I finally got to drive a ride-on mower, cut with a Flymo and vacuum with a Dyson without having to buy any of them.  We have used many different cookers with varying results and are certainly getting good ideas of what to look for when we set roots down again one day.

Not too long before the owners get back then we will head north for a couple of days, turn left and follow the Loire valley towards Brittany to visit Barbara and Tim who we are house sitting for during six months in winter, and then dash for the ferry to the UK. Summer has now truly begun in France, and we feel blessed to experience it.