09-10: Today we spent about 7-8 hours working on a Grand South America cruise starting in January 2027. Some good friends are going on the same cruise so that is exciting for all of us. We have several excursions booked together. They have been better about booking than we have so we really needed to catch up, and we did. A few of our stops have nothing to book. Several more have nothing that fits my ability or interest for either of us. Anyway, it was a big job but our calendar is current as of today. Yes, there will no doubt be changes. However, now the majority of decisions have been made and we don’t need to spend time on that during our 6 weeks at home. Instead, we can enjoy our time with family, our garden, and catching up on things at home. Stuart made some pretty large sandwiches, Croque Monsieur for our lunch. We ate half and ate the second half for dinner! Great games of Rummikub tonight as well.
09-11: Today we
slept in after the late night of Rummikub. We researched and booked a little
trip up to the La Rochelle area for next week. We will also stop in Cognac for
one night. We had a very filling late lunch with chili baked potatoes. Some
housekeeping, dishes and laundry, and the rest of the day I worked on the
album. Stuart did a variety of things on his laptop too. I had a call from
Steven, which was nice.
09-12: Stuart walked to Carrefour today. It isn’t far but he doesn’t want to lose our perfect parking place so he didn’t want to move the car. He only got a few things. He did get a nice bottle of white wine, which we sampled with a bleu cheese toast for our happy hour. For dinner I made a potato dish today using Tartiflette - recette au reblochon cheese that we bought at the Blaye market. I added zucchini to give us more vegetables and also some minced ham. Fanny said put bacon in it but the bacon we have found this time has not been great. The ham worked and we didn’t need any salt because it is really salty. It was really good. It was sizzling as the Tartiflette - recette au reblochon cheese melted into a creamy delight. We put together a little trip up to La Rochelle and surrounding areas for next week.
09-13: Sunday is market day here in Bourg. We were really looking forward to the pizza truck they had here last week. NO – It was not here today! We do seem to have a hard time finding pizza! We got a few things at the market. The produce was beautiful. After that we stopped at a snack place and got a few things. As we walked along, we noticed the Thai restaurant was open so we had Thai food for our lunch. It was good. Now things are being packed up and it isn’t even 1p yet. Two food vendors are done for the day, good thing we ate at the Thai place. We wanted a pastry or 2 for our breakfast but at a quick glance the cabinet was empty. We went to walk along home but the proprietor called us back, it was French but with motions I was sure that’s what she wanted. Then we saw the small baguette with raisins, nuts, and apricot. We bought that and after we paid, she gave us a regular baguette. They really had very little left but that was such a nice gesture. The rest of the day was cards, I worked on photos, Stuart put more in place for our road trip next week.
No comments:
Post a Comment