Sunday 7th October

Saint Maurice
Today the sun was shining and we enjoyed sitting outside in the garden with Marisa putting me to shame by doing some sketching of the local views and the cottage.
We had made arrangements to drive into Rogny to pick up Gretchen so we could drive out further into the country side to have lunch at one of her favourite places., The Rendesvous Pecheurs in Saint Maurice -Sur-Aveyron
What a picturesque place it turned out to be. An old building(as always) above a narrow road which had a small ford across it. Not much traffic,except for a convey of 6 cars and then nothing else. We sat in the sun until it moved behind the house. The meal was whatever the hostess had prepared and today it was mussels in a sauce, duck breast, home made tart,coffee, wines and aperitifs to begin with. We had to skip the cheeses as we were too full.
We then walked down the road to look at the ruined abbey which had been partly transformed by a Parisian architect into I suspect, a very comfortable getaway home.
We drove back to Rogny, where Gretchen invited us in to her 300 year old home the former presbytery( written about by her author son Jeffrey Greene) so Marisa could have a look around. We walked in the garden and down to where the priests use to make their daily walks through the arched trees and down to a sculpture of Jesus pointing up to heaven saying there is a better place up there. Hopefully some of the priests have found it.
Saying our goodbyes we made our way home to enjoy the rest of the day in the garden and then by the warmth of the fire.