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Today was a rather busy day. We saw many sights and ate a lot of food! LOL Well, of course we started with breakfast 😊 "I'll have the usual" 😊 At about 10 am we started our day trip to Guéret where Jean-François has a house he'd like to sell and so he had a "rendezvous" with an agent. Guéret is about 1 hour away and has about 14,000 people. But before we got there we had to stop in a town called Aubusson (more about this town on Wednesday night as we are going to spend the day there with the butcher's daughter). J-F had to take his car to the Volvo dealership to be checked for an engine problem. We took 2 cars so we could leave J-F's car in Aubusson to be fixed. While he was at the dealership Mom, Colette and I just walked a bit around the centre ville until J-F was finished. I am going to post one picture of a very pretty and old house we discovered. The car was not able to be fixed so we left the Volvo in Aubusson and drove my car to Guéret. We arrived just in time for
lunch and my mom wanted to buy a very nice meal for our wonderful hosts and we found an excellent reataurant right across the street from where we parked the car - La Belle Epoque. OMG! It was an amazing restaurant. We ordered a 3 course meal and a bottle of champagne (my mother HAD to have champagne! Not that there's anything wrong with that!). The first course that I had was a seafood salad with snails, mussels, shrimp and 3 types of fish over lettuce and tomatoes with a viniagrette. That salad was so big, it would have been enough by itself! The second course was grilled Limousin beef (a HUGE piece!), 1/2 a grilled eggplant, a bit of zucchini and a broiled tomato. It was absolutely delicious! We also had a nice bottle of cold rosé from Provence - very fresh and yummy. And the 3rd course was dessert -Ile Flottante - a milky, custard base with meringue floating on top. Is everyone hungry?? LOL After lunch J-F and Colette went to their meeting and mom and I just wandered around a bit. We saw many real estate offices and picked up some information on buying a house.
I am drooling! We met up again at 4 pm and began driving back to Crocq but not without a couple of awesome stops. The first was in Moutier-d'Ahun. This is a town with an old Roman church that is full of incredible wood carvings. Sorry I have no pictures but it was forbidden to take any 😞 It was first built in 997 as an abbey and rebuilt in the XIIth century but was left to decay. It was restored and extended during the XVth but at the end of that century large parts of it was destroyed in the Religious Wars. In 1610, it was again occupied by monks who began to restore it. It became the village parish church in 1844. There is also an old Roman bridge across the Creuse River there. After we left Moutier-d'Ahun, we drove on very small country roads and stopped at La Rochette where we visited another church that was built in the XIIth century. The spire is unique because it tilts a bit and is also roofed with wood shingles. There is a plaque just outside the church commemorating the capture of a man during WWII. He was a Resistance
fighter and was captured at that site by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald where he died a martyr for France. Very interesting! We arrived back home tired but happy and had a nice light dinner of tomato salad, hard boiled eggs, left-over tabbouleh, jambon and, of course, bread, cheese and wine! Mom went to bed at 8:30 and I am going to sign off now and do the same! Tomorrow begins our adventures without our most excellent hosts....wish us luck!!
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