During the April visit we found time to walk up to Lucie's house and barn which are real aladdin's caves, including her mum's old Morris Traveller. Beautiful spaces with fantastic views and it will stunning when its fully renovated. We must try and help, as she's really taken us under her wing, and gone out of her way to be helpful. Her 2 black labs, Zuri and Nusu love it up the hill, though Zuri howled and needed a full 15 minutes of pampering to stop his trembling when he touched his nose on Stan the donkey's electric fence. Stan was rescued by Lucie and has just had another reprieve as the local vet has just deemed him too old to lose his balls (a danger of haemoraging apparently), so a doubly lucky donkey. He loves mints, though the extra strong one we gave him left him open mouthed literally.
Sitting at Le Donjon we see and meet the world of Bourdeilles. Ben the IT guy, Antoine and Martine from Versailles, the 70 year old "paper boy" who pops in for an express (coffee), Elaine who is doing up the mill we saw when we were investigating builders and many more. And it is all so stunningly beautiful too. Our contentment reached new heights at Auchan in Perigeux when we bought lots of VERY reasonably priced wine that I can drink, whilst Malcolm is next out here "helping" Andrew and having a fabulous time.
