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| Love the look of this bookshop |
As book lovers, when we saw we were close to ‘The City of Writing’, Montmorillon, we couldn’t resist a stopover. Our parking place was by the fast flowing river, Gartempe, and just a five minute walk into its famous medieval centre where all its bookshops and writing museums are located. Annoyingly, as we arrived on a winter’s Saturday afternoon, everything was shut but we enjoyed strolling around, soaking up the ambience and dreaming of when we could return to experience the place when the bookshop’s doors were flung open and life returned to the quiet streets.
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| Vieux Pont |
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| Loving their window displays |
On a positive note, the macaron boutique and museum was open so I made a selection of coffee and hazelnut along with rose and lychee flavours to keep us going through the evening. Apparently they’ll last in the fridge for 8 to 10 days. I don’t think so! They’ll all be gone by this evening.
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| For sale in an antique shop |
The sun came out this morning and we drove on to Le Grand Pressigny, famous for its prehistory museum which is located in a massive chateau above the town. For a change, the place was open but Hugo wasn’t allowed in so we were happy to walk around the gardens and enjoy the replica ancient animals that have been placed in the courtyard.
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| Walking to the chateau |
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| Hugo wasn’t keen |
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He quite liked the mammoth though
We found a recently opened restaurant/bar called La Cabane with extremely friendly owners. We got chatting and discovered the owner is a keen walker and plans to do the Compostela. Needless to say he and Graham bonded and shared observations about the lightness of different brands of walking gear. A knowing eye roll was shared between his wife and I. Tomorrow they head to Spain en vacance and we head to Vendǒme. |
