The little horrors were up at 7am, (quite unnecessarily as we didnt know when we could pick up the car. Eventually we walked into town with them in the double buggy, took about 40 minutes. We headed straight for the garage and tried to ask what he was doing, but he kept saying "this evening", so it meant that even if he could adapt the system and (that's by no means certain) we still couldn't leave until the following day, and the weather's turned very nasty. Very windy and squally - we must look splendidly English in our cagoules, tramping through the city in search of a coffee for us and le glace pour l'enfants terrible.
Nice coffee, bill horrendous - given to us upfront cost the equivalent of 15.70 francs. Then le garcon came back and asked if we could like some croissant and we said "oui merci", mainly because David said it was a quaint French custom given free, and took two. I was dubious so only took one. So D got a shock when they were 2 francs each!
We went to see the cathedral, which was enveloped in Joan of Arc tat - but at least it was out of the wind and rain. We decided to get more tent pegs because the wind is howling and we may do a Dorethy and Toto if we don't batten down. Later we went to a salon-du-the, had a wonderful cup of Ceylon and we all had Quiche Lorraine, nicest we've tasted. The kids ate all of theirs, which is almost the first proper meal they've eaten apart from chips on the boat, (which counts as a proper meal in their book).
After buying crayons and colouring books and postcards - what do we say? Having a WONDERFUL time, everyone. Wish you were all here to share wet tents, crappy cars that haven't got us far, crying toddler and spending money we haven't got ... We walked back to camp and then at 5.30 I went to collect the car trembling lest the adaptation had failed. But it was ready at a village called Olivet. The garage man took me over in his BL Innocenti - very nice, made in Italy with a Mini engine. Returned in triumph (and very relieved) to Big D and packed the car. It was raining again for a change.
Expenses Francs
coffee, croissants, glace 21.60
lunch Quiche and tea 37.00
tent peg and Jar 15.20
crayons and books 7.55
postcards 7.00
stamps 6.00
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