Three in one.

I'm just trying to catch up on the blog for the time we have been at David and Wendy's.  Their broadband is down so we haven't had the wifi we expected.  In this episode I am catching up on Saturday, Sunday and Monday (17/18/19 Oct).

Saturday was a pretty quiet day.  We bought bread in the morning and went for a nice cycle ride in the afternoon before watching World Cup Rugby and eating a lovely paella made by David.

On Sunday we had a visit to St Giles Crois de Vie, which is a beautiful seaside harbour and beach town.  We visited the market and bought a dozen oysters for our evening meal starters.

Then went onto the promenade for a picnic.  The sun continues to shine on us.  

Me and my tart!  Apple tart to be precise.......in the box.

The wind was cool but we managed to get a sheltered place for our butties.  Then we went for a longer walk, along the Corniche from St Hilaire de Riez with a nice cafe stop for hot chocolate.

What a beach.  It got quite warm later in the afternoon but I wasn't persuaded to go for a swim.

Back at Apremont, Janice and I had a little walk cause we thought it was about time we took a photo of the chateau.

By coincidence Janice and family had visited this chateau in 1992.

We watched more rugby on television when we got back and Scotland were cruelly beaten by Australia because of a very controversial penalty to the Aussies in the last couple of minutes.  Janice is, of course, a strong Scotland supporter being allegedly Scottish as she is!

We had a lovely meal with super oyster starters and a pork, rice and salad main course, followed by a sticky toffee pudding.  David and Wendy have been such wonderful hosts.  However, they didn't let us win in the following game of.....Boggle.  I had the longest list of words but unfortunately I didn't abide by the rules because my letters weren't linked.  How was I supposed to know!

Monday was our day to move on.  We said our fond farewells and set off in the general direction of Niort.  By lunchtime we had left La Roche sur Yon and had the same vehicle problem again as we had on Thursday!!!

Back to a Fiat service centre at La Roche.  We called D&W and they came out to translate for us.  This time an electrical connector was replaced and we paid even more than last time before we were on the road again at about 4.30pm.  I hope this is the end of the problem.  We parted with D&W again.

My stomach wouldn't let me travel any further without food so we stopped overnight at a fairly non- descript aire de camping in Benet, near to Niort.