Sand rain and a wild goose chase

It Monday morning, one week into my 3 week sojourn in Sigogne and guess what, i's raining. It feels more like November than the middle of August. The weather for the first week was not too bad, though it has nor been hot, and cloud and rain have been winning over the sunshine. The prospects for this week are not looking good having checked the forecast out to Thursday it looks like there will be rain every day.

We picked the best day of the week to go to the beach last week, and we were rained off the beach around lunch time, then the following day turned out to be the best day of week when I decided to do some work on the house. The one up side of this weather is that there is more work being done than sitting around in the sun, but not so good if you are my four and a half year old daughter who wants to play all the time.

I spent the first couple of days tidying out the garage, and putting down (humane) mice traps, so that my wife will go into the garage again and I have room to work.

Tuesday was beach day as you have already read, but the beach itself was a nice small bay with a long shallow shelf so ideal for children to play in the sea when the tide is in (it also appeared to have full time life guards on duty). There was also a kids club, with adult leaders and lots of activities, including a swimming pool. There were 2 restaurants one which purported to be open 7 days a week but when we looked was closed, so we went to the other one where the food was good and the service fast so we would recommend this as a good family beach, what is it called well it is by a place called Meschers sur Gironde and the beach was Plage des Nonnes, about an hour and 15 minutes drive from our house. As you may have guessed I had to run off and look up the names....

Wednesday was spent finishing off the painting to the front of the house that Gerard had done, I just had to do the bottom couple of inches all the way round where the roller did not reach. Then in the afternoon we went on a wild goose chase around the Charente looking for a supermarket that was open, which we failed to do, everything was closed, and so we went off to a special brocante that is only open on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and that was closed too. When we got back home we discovered that it was the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and that was why everything was closed.