A four day wekend - I think I coud get used to this.

For once we were not subjected to the toot-der- toot of the Ryanair "on time arrival" fanfare. However it was not very late and having collected a value priced Citroen C3 Picasso from Alamo we were picking up some essential supplies in Carrefour by 2.00pm.
Looking to book the rental car our usual suppliers (Hertz and Avis) wanted about twice what we paid on our last trip. So I just googled "car rental" and came up with a booking with Alamo via ebookers.com at the same sort of rate we'd last paid and ended up with a bigger vehicle, which proved very useful come Saturday.
Our plan was to play nine holes of golf at 4.00pm but Anika's left arm problem made this very unwise so we decided to leave it.

We did a bit of a cycle, a round trip to Esnande down to the shore and back along to Port de Pelle and back into Marsilly and onto Nantilly. We stopped of at the village hall were the annual distribution of sacs de poubelle was taking place and stocked up - enough to keep us going for years we reckon. It was interesting that their records still had the Azzapardi family living in No 8 and it is two and half years since they left. No wonder the Azzapardi voting papers came to the house this year. The cycle ride did serve to convince me that the bike I am using is too small for me to be comfortable for anything other than a short ride.

Friday was not the warmest day to arrive back in Rue de Nantilly and it was quite early in the evening when we got the wood fire going.

With golf off the agenda for the wekend we decided to re-jig the weekend and promoted buying me a new bike to the top of the list. We had done a bit of research when we were last here and went straight to Decathlon armed with our limited french and all the necessary euro. In all it only took 15 minutes and we were packing the b-twin 7 into the luggage space of the Citroen and bringing the new bike back to Nantilly.

After a test ride around the village we planted the flowers into the pots to try and establish a bit of floral colour for later in the year. We also did a bit of a tidy up of the garage so as to clear the way for a delivery of firewood that we need to get in at the begining of summer.

We made another visit to Les Gourmets in Lagord for dinner, this time we weren't the only people in the dining room, there were three others. Both "salad de" starters were excellent and the puddings were fine indeed. Mixed success with the mains but not bad for a local and well worth another visit.

So far Sunday has been a bit influenced by the news that the UK airports in south east in England maybe about to close because of the volcanic ash......