This was Monday Aug 31, 2015
Our friend's French friend and "next door hamlet" neighbor has invited us to come to use the Internet. We are so rural that we have little connections at any time and as we were in the process of selling a house in the States, we needed a bit of Internet time. We realized that we didn't know where she lives so we thought to be calling her back but it rang to our friend in England. She gave us directions to the Internet house and it is only a short walk and a shorter drive but since my knee isn't’t happy, we drove. We brought her some Fortnum and Mason’s Diamond Jubilee Tea from 2012. She seemed to like it.When we got there, weren’t sure we had the right place but she came out to greet us right away and she had two dogs just going crazy to see us, one named Grommit. A mix with shepherd of some kind and lab. The other was a big golden lab,rather old
. She also had a cat and another dog but we didn’t see them.
The Internet lady's English isn’t great but we managed to get onto the Internet and take care of business and a bit of pleasure. She really wanted to give us coffee and then scurried around until she found some cake to give us as well. I know she was enjoying the company and the dogs were cute and funny as well, albeit smelly. Her house was lovely. Very old but had a spiral staircase in the middle of the room. Tons of stuff all over the place, like an old antique shop almost. I would have loved to explore. But I don't know the culture well enough to ask to look around. It's probably not like Korea when my friends would come in and open all the closets and cupboards to see what was there. As we were closing up to leave, she ran outside and got us a marrow – a zucchini – of tremendous proportions. She was going to give us some beans too but we declined. She had about a dozen marrows out there. We made arrangements to come again on Friday
Back to the house to drop off our marrow and then
We drove to Leheoc to go to the car museum. Found it just outside of town but went into town to the Pile ou Face, a place recommended by the Internet lady for eating crepes but it was closed
. Walked into the bar next door but they no longer had the open kitchen but they went into their attached store and brought out a baguette and offered us ham and cheese sandwich so did that. Have had ham and cheese every day for lunch since we got here. Shades of visits to France past. We are learning that lunch is from noon to about 2 p.m. and very few places serve outside of that time. Also, during that time, the shops are closed as well.
Then to the car museum just up the road. There is going to be a rally on Sat and Sun and the cars were already coming in to prepare. Looks like a really big deal. We will have to check and see if it will adversely affect us trying to get out of here.
The car museum is huge. It has over 300 automobiles. Mostly European models but also some Fords including a Model T and some Cadillacs but not a mustang or a T bird. Haven’t even heard of a lot of the older European models. The early Jaguars and Porsches weren’t anything gorgeous but kind of clunky. Don’t know how they became such expensive sports cars.
Also had an extensive room of model cars. Many sections on racing cars
. We sat and watched a video of some racing. Amazing how the people stand right by the track and just back up when a car comes. Once the car plowed into the people.
The museum seemed to go on and on and finally I was really tired of seeing cars and of being in the museum. Even my husband got tired of it and he rarely tires of a museum. By the time we went upstairs, we were both tired but upstairs they had old buildings and businesses and it was far more interesting than just row after row of cars but we were too tired to enjoy that and just walked through the interesting stuff quickly.
Out of the museum and back to the house. Since we had spent most of the morning on the Internet and didn't get out of the house until later and to the museum until even later, this is going to be the extent of our day. Back at the house, it is a bit smelly. We have seen a manure spreading truck or two. Maybe it won't be so bad.
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