Canoeing and markets.

The weather has been fantastic for about a month now. We've been very lucky. My brother Paul, and Pip came over this week and we discovered some more new places together. On Monday we went back to Brantome which looked beautiful in the sunshine. We had a mooch around, found a bakers and had a picnic by the river, then couldn't resist a sneaky peep in the Estate Agent's windows!

Then we hired a couple of canoes and spent an idyllic couple of hours drifting down La Dronne river. It was pretty and peaceful. There were three wiers to go through, and Pip and Dave who were both sat in the front got a thorough soaking on the last one. Paul and I stayed dry.

We had a good time with Paul and Pip, including petanque tournaments (Paul was the champ), and table tennis tournaments when I ruled supreme! ( Red wine and Jenlain slowed Paul down a bit!!)

As we waved them off we welcomed Barbara who is here now. Today we went into Perigueux to the market. Like me, she's a fan of French food markets, so we bought several local specialities that we hadn't eaten before. All in the name of research you understand! We couldn't resist the saucisson stall, where Barbara bought a duck saucisson, a camembert one and a donkey sausage!! Yes, really!

The fresh fish stall was amazing, the paella was hard to resist but the raw fish heads weren't. The flower stall looked good too, but they weren't edible so we didn't buy any!