Around Felines again
Trip Start
Mar 29, 2006
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Trip End
Feb 28, 2007
Felines Minervois,
France
Friday, June 30, 2006
SATURDAY, 1st July
The following days were spent trying to keep cool and trying to keep ourselves occupied. Anne's hand continued to give her problems. Apart from anything else she could not knit. She tried to do some of her painting with a degree of success otherwise she read and read and read...as did I. I found another Stephen Fry and read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. I never seem to be able to catch up with this log. Here we were nearly at the end of our Felines stay and my narrative is still driving through southern France.
We went to Carcassonne this day. Checked our emails and bought some books. Had a reply from Tracey giving directions to Banagher but little else. We booked our rail tickets from Perpignan to Carcassonne for the following week and booked a room in the Terminus hotel for the same night. [All will be revealed later.] We did a small shop at a new bigger inter-marche that we found on the way out of town.
I saw the England v Portugal game in the evening. The one in which Rooney was sent off, Ronaldo gave his wink and England lost on penalties. I left the bar at full time. Couldn't stand the suspense. The Brazil v France game afterwards was much more exciting especially with a bar full of Frenchies. They celebrated their win with a lot of noise and the lighting of firecrackers...inside the bar. First time I'd seen them get excited about anything.
SUNDAY, 2nd July
At home. L'Ognon is the name of the river that meanders its way through Felines. I mention it because we seemed to cross it many times in our wanderings around the region. Mostly it was dry. We nicknamed it 'the onion' for obvious reasons. In case I have not mentioned it I never want to see another grapevine and I still have nightmares about driving through small country towns with their narrow streets and irresponsible parking. [ Wing mirror replacement must be big business in France and Italy. However most vehicles we saw either had them turned inwards or they didn't care and left them dangling.]
