Sorry for the very brief post yesterday, about yesterday. We’d travelled all day, arrived, had dinner then sat around chatting until late so only managed a very quick post.
We had another nice breakfast at Manoir Francis courtesy of Dominique. A note about her name: Dominique LeRoy. Sounds very French until you receive an email from her where the ‘From’ field is ‘Leroy Dominique’, which sounds a lot less French and a lot more ‘hood. She no gangsta homes, y’dig? Sorry about that.
There was a rather attentive, pregnant cat who joined us for breakfast. She might have been hungry but we were giving her any bread, or cake. So we said goodbye to our little pregnant cake starved kitty.
Set off about 9.30am to head across to Domfort. The first part of the journey was another of these Scenic routes from a book about drives across France. The latter part was a straight ‘fastest route not involving toll roads’. Overall it was a pretty relaxing day. Stopped about 2-3 hours into the drive at a place called Leons da Forette. A rather beautiful little village. It was a random pick but as you can see, a good one.
The pace improved as we moved onto faster roads and we arrived about 5pm. We would have been sooner except we had two false ‘starts’. Mike had entered the route destination quite generically so we ended up in a town square. The second attempt used the address stored on the iPhone, which ended in an industrial escape. Then we just let google do it’s thing and got to the right place.
Victoria made us very welcome and has looked after us since arriving. She’s from Bolton. It wasn’t a conscious choice to pick a B&B owned by a ‘local’ but there are certainly fewer language barriers. Most of her other guests are also English though. Mark and Steve (not a couple) are from Wiltshire and drove across for a few days in one of Steve’s Caterham 7s. To cut a long story short lots of time has been spent talking about cars, driving etc etc. They’d already done Mont St Michel and Normandy so we were able to pick their brains about places to go and see the following day. Very friendly pair (though not a couple) and we’re most grateful.
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