Another hot and sunny week so the municipal pool at Lectoure is busy each day. Our children love going there for the daily swim, part of the school curriculum, then they come home and get straight in the pool. They’ll be growing gills soon.
In June there’s something to do every weekend as well as the children going on their school trips and taking part in the end of term concerts. Our son’s class trip went to “Le Vert en l’Air” – a 150 hectare park with huge trees and high wire action. There’s pony trekking, paint-balling and a shady obelisk picnic area. He and his classmates gave it a big thumbs up and we’ve promised to have a family day out there during the school holidays.
Our daughter was performing at the local theatre on Saturday afternoon in a dance show. It was a very sweet performance involving hula hoops and lots of enthusiasm. She’s looking forward to her school trip next week. Two classes will be visiting the gorgeous riverside town of Nerac and taking a boat trip. Rick Stein visited Nerac and the market on his French Odyssey boat trip, when he travelled from Bordeaux to Marseille by barge using the inland waterways.
This weekend we met up with friends for the Maroux village meal. Long trestle tables were set up in the Mairie gardens. A large fire pit was smoking away all evening adding to the overall ambiance. Long lengths of sizzling sausages were coiled over a long grill the size and shape of a single bed frame and laid across the wooden embers. We enjoyed aperitifs, masses of french bread,platters piled high with the steaming sausages and herbed pork. There was plenty of wine, hunks of creamy cheese and ice cream. We also enjoyed strong coffee, plenty of Armagnac, Schnapps and cherries steeped in an eye-wateringly strong liqueur. The children played together in a big group, all different ages enjoying French skipping with elastics, which seems to be the current craze sweeping the school playground.
After popping back to our friends’ home for a quick (!) cuppa we arrived home at 3am, so we needed a lovely long lie in.
Other activities held this weekend included a Loto in Lectoure and a vide grenier at Gaudenville.
