Shopping day

About once a week (less if we can help it), we make the trip either down to St Girons (12miles/25 mins down a winding road) or over the other side of the Col de Port to Tarascon or Foix to do 'shopping'. It will inevitably include a supermarket shop (there is a fab Intermarché 'Hypermarché' in Foix and a smaller one in St Girons) in order to stock up on basic essentials such as loo roll, dry goods and usually some good fish, plus also a 'bricolage' shop to get DIY stuff necessary for the house renovation. Today was a 'shopping' day, which took us out of the house from 13.45 until 18.00 hrs. Tedious but necessary. We managed to get the necessary 'corde' to finish the repair on the wood-burner door (Andy can't wait for some cooler nights so he can get it lit!), we popped in to 'Geant Carrelage' to try to find some bathroom tiles (found some very nice ones but would cost €80 for under a m2!), got some DIY stuff from Mr Bricolage (2 pine shelves which we can add to the 'wardrobe' to make more storage space, a new loo seat and various other insignificant bits and bobbins), got an 'airer' from Foir Fouille (like Wilko) plus over £100 pounds worth of shopping from Intermarché! But that did include a fair few bottles of wine (ave price €3.50), some lovely meat (includes a guinea fowl, a pigs trotter and a shoulder of lamb) and some 'rouget barbet' (red mullet) of which you can read more on Andy's new blog. By the time we had done, the car temperature guage was showing 26Deg C and we had had enough, so headed home where it was a far more amenable 20 Deg C.

Took a lovely photo of the sun going down beyond Mont Valier this evening....