01.02 Day 138 . . . Ruffec

We both got for breakfast, ringing the changes again with scrambled egg on toast - having time on your side does allow you to pamper yourselves with breakfast choice . . . no more grabbed slice of toast running for the door. Weirdly however I was feeling rough again . . . headache and feeling nauseous. I put it down to too much sleep over the past couple of days and decided that I needed to give myself a kick up the backside and crack on.
I messaged Warren about the diagnostic gadgets arrival and he immediately called me. So fleece on and gadget in hand (the diagnostic gadget) it was outside to Roxvanne. Actually it wasn’t too cold at all and after attaching the gadget to Rox’s inner parts Warren was able to give me the good news. There was an issue but not anything to worry about for a while. Something to fix when back in the UK. So using my new gadget I cleared all the fault lights on Rox’s dashboard and returned to the warm. Warren is a Legend!!
Tre had some bits and pieces to do and so I swallowed a couple of French Elephant Paracetamol and grabbed a couple of hours snooze to try and clear the headache.
At about 2pm we ventured out as the weather was lovely and drove to Ruffec - somewhere we have been through a number of times but never stopped. We parked up and walked the main shopping streets. One thing you do notice here is that no two villages or towns have the same shops, its only on the outskirts you occasionally find a well known supermarket or a very rare McDonalds.
Into a patisserie we popped and I had the most gigantic mille feuile - I should have cut it in two and had half the next day . . . . nah, it was lush.
Following our patisserie stop we drove to a nearby Leclerc to grab some bits for Gilly and Paul visiting tomorrow, I also found a very peppered sausage which looked too good to ignore.
From here a visit to a very new built Lidl on the outskirts of the town - just so I could attempt to buy some chilli seeds. Success - Birds Eye Chilli seeds x3 packets acquired.
We then headed home and found ourselves eventually on ‘The road to nowhere’. Tre has fairly often mentioned a church near to where we are staying, but that we’ve never driven past on any of our trips out - so this time as the weather was lovely with a milky sky, it seemed a good time to try and find it. It transpired it was the church in Les Alleuds, the Église Notre-Dame, ancienne abbatiale de Les-Alleuds (Notre-Dame church, former abbey church of Les Alleuds) - the next hamlet to where we are living. It was quite a large and impressive church for such a small hamlet and had an outside staircase leading underground, which we couldn’t explore. The church was shut and so we admired from outside.
Once home we again had a nibbles tea of cheese and bread and of course the pepper sausage.
The evening once again passed with some TV and lots of nattering.
I still felt a little rough when going to bed - maybe this time it was a mix of mille feuille and pepper sausage that was the cause.Baca lagi