Thursday 29 April 2010 Le Roc St Andre

Thursday 29 April 2010 Le Roc St Andre (rest day)

Woke up this morning after having a sleep-in.  When I sleep in it generally means I must be pretty tired.  I lay in my snug sleeping bag and didnt want to get out of bed so thoughts of a rest day started sneaking into my mind.  After about half and hour I got dressed and entered the morning, it was cold, not the UK cold but less then 12degC I guess.  Nothing my beanie couldnt handle.

For breakfast we wandered up to the Patisserie and bought a baguette for lunch and some yummys for breakfast.  At about 10am I was keen to have my first French coffee so again we made the short walk in the village centre.  The bar we had a beer at last night becomes the place to have your morning coffee so we ordered two Cafe au lait (coffee with milk) and they were very good. While sipping our coffees Sandy noticed dark clouds approaching so after buying some supplies at the store we wandered back to the tent.  Not long after closing up the tent it started to rain.  We lay in our sleeping bags reading our books.  Sandy bought a French magazine to practice her new found lingual talents.

Having a day off means that it is now unlikely that we'll meet up with Tom and Anja again which is a shame as they were great company.

We read our books and waited for the rain to clear.  Around lunch time we decided to treat ourselves to Crepes as these are a Beton specilaility so it was off to the bar/cafe/brasserie/creperie.  Wow, what a meal!!  We'd never seen crepes served like that.  We both had a savory crepe for main and then sweet ones for dessert.  Two hours later we rolled back down the hill to our tent for a little nap :)

The lady at the bar was an excellent French teacher (even though she is from Romania) and helped us along very nicely.  Naturally we had to go back in the evening for a couple of drinks and she was still there, we're starting to feel like locals.....and I could live with that.  Le Roc St Andre is not a tourist town.  It has some sort of wood factory down the road a bit that provides industry and a few shops in town so we are enjoying been close to the 'real' France.