the Plague) looking for bungalows… At first glance, it didn’t appear that there were any, but as it turns out, La Plage seems to be recently entering the bungalow business and there was one with our name on it. Although not totally confirmed, we may have been the first people to stay in this bungalow. It was still mobile home-ish in size and layout (2 tiny bedrooms, kitchen and table in the middle), but it was incredibly cute and bright, and it was only 11 Euro per night per person. What a deal! The best part was the location. It was very quiet, there was a cute older couple farming the land in front of us everyday, and a huge cliff across as the view and the river right behind us. The owner was getting ready for the busy season, which is mainly July and August, and he was working hard on the pool when we got there. The weather was fantastic, sunny and warm to hot everyday and big thunderstorms every night (thank God we weren’t in the tents, a couple of nights the thunder and lighting was pretty crazy).
We went on a canoe down the river the first day… It’s kind of like going down the Apple River, except in a canoe instead of a tube, no beer tree in the middle and instead of a view of drunk guys peeing off to the side, there is a view of amazing cliffs with castles built into or on top off it. Of course, it is not the busy season, so maybe in August there are drunk guys peeing off to the side here as well.(TJ) This is another beautiful area of France. The Dordogne is a small river that flows through the area that is surrounded by hills/cliffs that are often topped with castles or chateau’s. There are also small villages every so often that are right along the river, a lot of the houses are built directly into the limestone cliffs. A little bit about the place we stayed at. The trailer was about 
20 yards away from a pretty good size garden. The garden was tended to by an elderly couple who had to have been in their 80s. They women was in the garden 7 to 8 hours a day, if not more. It was large but not that large. The man also probably put in 4-5 hours a day. When they were in the garden together it would seem that that they would grunt and point at things to each other. I don’t know much about gardening but it seems to me they were putting way too much time into this garden. I guess it was just how they stayed out of each others way. I’d hate to see how Michelle and I will be at 80, we already grunt and point at things to each other. Then there was our innkeeper. During our 5 day stay he was constantly power washing the concrete by the pool in a speedo. I still don’t know why in the hell he was power washing so much, was he trying to resurface the concrete? I can only think that he was procrastinating, when we really needed that pool to be open on the hot days.
20 yards away from a pretty good size garden. The garden was tended to by an elderly couple who had to have been in their 80s. They women was in the garden 7 to 8 hours a day, if not more. It was large but not that large. The man also probably put in 4-5 hours a day. When they were in the garden together it would seem that that they would grunt and point at things to each other. I don’t know much about gardening but it seems to me they were putting way too much time into this garden. I guess it was just how they stayed out of each others way. I’d hate to see how Michelle and I will be at 80, we already grunt and point at things to each other. Then there was our innkeeper. During our 5 day stay he was constantly power washing the concrete by the pool in a speedo. I still don’t know why in the hell he was power washing so much, was he trying to resurface the concrete? I can only think that he was procrastinating, when we really needed that pool to be open on the hot days. 
No comments:
Post a Comment