20.12 Day 95 . . . Back So Soon?

No lay in today - thankfully. We had to be up and out - and by 8am we were out of the door on route to Bordeaux to collect Munch. Stopping at Sauze to grab fuel and then hitting the infamous N10 south. The road was actually relatively quiet for once, I guess a few people had already started to hibernate for Christmas. We had left plenty of time to get to the airport, having been caught in traffic last time and only just making it - even then we had left an hour earlier than needed. This time we sailed through and we’re mega early.
Munch was arriving into Billie terminal which is a temporary terminal and has an outside waiting area when meeting people from flights at arrivals. So as we were early when went to the other terminal and grabbed a coffee inside. Tre was like a cat in a hot tin roof and repeatedly told me she didn’t want to be late meeting Munch - but I couldn’t see that the three minute walk from where we were seated was going to be an issue once we knew she had landed. That being said we checked the flight tracker and the plane was only just over Paris - however, Tre was not sure the tracker was accurate so off we toddled to Billie. The flight monitor indicated the flight would land in 40 minutes. After a tense conversation about waiting in the bloody cold - I convinced Tre to return to an even closer cafe about 1 minute from Billie which although open fronted had heaters! Can I just point out it was bitter cold - Tre had about 8 layers of clothes on!!
After 10 minutes in that cafe Tre decided we needed to be waiting at the barrier, so iff we went back to Billie to stand in the cold, and stand waiting and waiting and waiting. Tre then decided to trust the tracker and went to a point where she could see the plane landing - about ten steps from where we had been standing already.
The plane finally flew over and within no less than another 30 minutes standing in the cold, Munch was back walking out of arrivals.
Toilets, drinks purchased and car park paid for we were back on the road north.
Without stopping we arrived back at Sauze and hopped into the boulangerie near to SuperU to grab some lunch, followed by a quick spin into SuperU to grab some bits for Munch . . . Chocolate!!
Home shortly after, we all chilled. Munch checked the length of the sofa hadn’t changed and she could still lay flat on it whilst in her phone, drinks nibbles and TV were the order of the afternoon. A little research on snow chain outlets in Bordeaux was also undertaken as we are still not sure about Pau and the mountains.
At about 7pm the world erupted when we received emails from both the estate agents and our solicitor re the house at Chenay. We spent probably 2-3 hours attempting to rescue our possible house purchase. Our solicitor was brilliant, the estate agent . . . 😡
When we actually made it to bed we were both frustrated and annoyed, not even knowing what tomorrow might bring as a result of tonight’s shenanigans!
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