08/10/09

Day 30 – October 8
So much for the red sky promise – thick fog greeted us this morning! We had expected to have the opportunity to buy wine or whatever is produced at France Passion sites, but the norm seems to be that they show you where you can park then disappear. So much for returning the favour! We set off for Blois to meet up with Lynn and Irvin, stopping off at various villages on the way on an unsuccessful water hunt, so we are economising on water as well as gas now! There are noticeably fewer services in this area for some unknown reason, seeing as it is such a tourist area.
Lynn and Irvin arrived about 1pm having found the aire much more easily than we did –we had some difficulty and more than a few choice words trying to wend our way through a car park full of very randomly parked cars to reach it! Their sat nav obviously isn’t as self opinionated as ours!
We ambled around Blois this afternoon, which is quite a large, busy town and a bit of a shock to the system after meandering through sleepy villages for the last few days.
Peter and Irvin tried their hand at catching fish for the barbie from the Loire, but to no avail. The fish obviously don’t take to day old baguette! This being the case we treated ourselves to dinner out tonight, a rarity on this trip, and sadly only resulting in a rather mediocre pizza and some very chilled red wine.
It’s lovely to meet up with them over here though, and to exchange stories about their trip and ours, being so different as they have followed the east/mountains and lakes route and we have followed the coast. And of course to compare notes about Hymers (and the French!) in general.