I know that I told everyone that I would be writing daily or at the very least every 2 days, but what with IT issues and complete lack of motivation, this is only the second report that I have posted since arriving in France (or is it the 3rd?).
Hopefully I will be forgiven if I tell you all that I have been busy house hunting, going to markets, eating, cooking, talking french, more eating, more house hunting and so forth - as one does when in France!
Happily, none of this has gone to waste (although it has most definitely gone to MY waist!) as I can now purchase my food from the market while speaking French, I have increased in size quite 'rapidment' and we have today signed the papers for our own little house (maison de ville) in a small town called Sigoulés, among the vineyards of Monbazilliac. This is about 15 kilometres south west from Bergerac in the Dordogne.
We truely are having a wonderful time. The caves at Lascaux with the prehistoric art have been waiting patiently for millenium for Peter to visit! This is something that he has always wanted to see. How amazing the drawings are. I found an absolute sense of peace in the knowledge that for tens of thousands of years - in amongst all the horrible things man has managed to do - there have always also been those who see beauty all around them and are able to unwittingly leave behind a message for those who follow.
Au revoir from Sigoulés.
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