Friday 31st August-Preparing to leave for France

Friday 31st August- Preparing to leave for France

Overcast morning. Had trouble seeing the planes coming into land though we could still hear them. Funny how you get use to the noise. I suppose if I lived here permanently I would soon loose interest in looking for the Qantas jets.

Went through our clothes and weeded out some of the summer ones as we probably brought too many with us. It’ll make it easy for us travelling on the trains and taxis in Paris.
Drove into Richmond to do some shopping in Waitrose and Tescos .
Bought some Chilean wine, which we had found to be quite good. Most of the shelves were stocked with Australian wines and of course some from France.
Filled the car up with petrol ready to hand over when we drive into London to drop it off at the Marble Arch depot. Have been studying the route, thankfully it will be early Saturday morning and the congestion charge will not have to be paid as it’s the weekend.
All very boring really, just winding down before we move on to the next exciting phase of our adventure to catch the Eurostar at noon tomorrow. Then another train down to Nogent-sur-vernisson in the Loire arriving about 6pm.We understand its just a very small hamlet where we will be met by Valerie and Geoff and taken to the local hotel where we will stay for a couple of nights. They are going to show us around and help us settle in before they leave to fly out to Australia.
Mandy, Nick and Sophie will be on their way back from their stay in the Southwest France, Biarritz I think.( Not sure if we will be able to meet up as we don’t really know where we will actually be Saturday evening)
Down to the allotment in the afternoon to water and pick any veggies that are ready.
It’s quite overcast but no rain and Sue doesn’t get back for another week.
Finally we walked up to the the end of the road and had a couple of beers at the Turks Head
before making dinner watching some TV and trying to get some sleep!
A big day tomorrow.