"Take It Easy"
(The Eagles)
So a couple of days chillin’ in Eymet with over 950 miles covered and the most demanding miles still ahead in Spain and Portugal. Eymet was a ‘Bastide’ town founded in 1270 at the southern gateway to the Périgord. Today this quaint little market town is in the heart of the tourist route in the Lot et Garonne region and you are more likely to hear an English accent in the bars than a French one….”yeah I live darn ‘ere now. Wot wiv the economy back ‘ome and my bad chest due to my working wiv cellulose paints for so many years we live cheaply ‘ere….” I personally have been here with the family twice in the recent few years on family holidays and knew how lovely and restful it was. I arrived on a Saturday night and with the French predilection for retail then I landed here on both days that most of the shops are shut (Sunday and Monday)! However the laundramat was open and with trepidation and considerable loose change I persuaded it all to work and am stocked up with properly clean togs again. The camp site is mainly British and French with everyone sporting a dog or two. The Brits are ‘seniors’ in the main basically spending some very cost effective weeks in the sun holed up on a Municipal camp site. Did I say sun?......I had a tan after leaving Verdun but sadly it now reflects rust…..yes lots more rain! Bought some Spanish maps and am plotting where I will head next.
So a couple of days chillin’ in Eymet with over 950 miles covered and the most demanding miles still ahead in Spain and Portugal. Eymet was a ‘Bastide’ town founded in 1270 at the southern gateway to the Périgord. Today this quaint little market town is in the heart of the tourist route in the Lot et Garonne region and you are more likely to hear an English accent in the bars than a French one….”yeah I live darn ‘ere now. Wot wiv the economy back ‘ome and my bad chest due to my working wiv cellulose paints for so many years we live cheaply ‘ere….” I personally have been here with the family twice in the recent few years on family holidays and knew how lovely and restful it was. I arrived on a Saturday night and with the French predilection for retail then I landed here on both days that most of the shops are shut (Sunday and Monday)! However the laundramat was open and with trepidation and considerable loose change I persuaded it all to work and am stocked up with properly clean togs again. The camp site is mainly British and French with everyone sporting a dog or two. The Brits are ‘seniors’ in the main basically spending some very cost effective weeks in the sun holed up on a Municipal camp site. Did I say sun?......I had a tan after leaving Verdun but sadly it now reflects rust…..yes lots more rain! Bought some Spanish maps and am plotting where I will head next.
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