Day One - Eymet Road Trip

Well we started our trip from Bressuire at 11am. After two hours we realized that we could visit Nico the Wine man from Bordeaux. We gave him a quick call and told him that we would be there in one hour. The weather was really hot and the thought of a nice cold glass of white wine seemed perfect. Well we arrived at his estate, it is so beautiful. He was by himself fixing his tractor.

He welcomed us by saying "have you had something to eat?"

We were thinking wow lunch and wine how perfect was that, we were so wrong I asked him what have you got

he said "nothing I was just asking".

He then offered us a glass of water as he had no cold white wine. Stunned with amazement we said nothing while he gave us a tour of his vineyard. It was great to see him and he said that he is looking forward to Eymet. We got back in the car at 4pm and headed to Bergerac as we had arranged to meet Albert from Aquitiane Langue at 6pm. We asked for directions before leaving but Albert said it's easy to find.
Oh right we ended up in the middle of town at the office du tourism who we must say were so helpful and fluent In English.
We followed directions and managed to get lost again and telephoned Albert. Melanie told me to pull over and turn around, just as I did that we saw the sign for Albert's school, how spooky was that!.
As we drove down the long drive we could see the Chateau in the distance and Albert had come to greet us.
Melanie said " I bet he has got some wine."

Hello girls he said "I bet you would love a nice cup of tea?". We were beginning to wonder if we were in France at all !.
He took us to his classrooms and we had a great chat and a cup of tea. Time was now ticking by and we asked him to reserve the campsite in Eymet. We had asked Albert if he wanted to join us for dinner so this meant we had one hour to get to Eymet and put up our tent. It was still 25 degrees. We found the campsite which is beautiful and started to erect the tent.
All was going well.
I have got to mention before leaving for our trip I bought two new double beds to make the camping trip a nicer experience for Melanie. Anyway the tent was up, inner bedrooms were up ,beds were blown up but they were too big to fit in the compartments. Sweltering hot and horrified Melanie had to open a bottle of fizz which had been kept nicely chilled. We quickly threw our beds in loose, hung up our Christmas lights, plugged our electric in and off we went to find Albert. We were just arriving when we saw him and we all went to a fantastic pizza restaurant. First thing ordered was a huge carafe of chilled Rose wine.

Ah perfect.

We laughed all night exchanging funny stories. Albert walked us back to the campsite and stayed for a hot chocolate. With Albert leaving, Melanie was horrified at the thought of camping and being exposed without an inner tent to sleep in. We finally fell asleep at 12.30 ish and woke at 6am feeling damp and with ear ache from the birds that were singing so loud. Melanie mumbled "what time is it?, I am wet, cold and I've been bitten". Her hand was so swollen.
I was beginning to think that maybe camping wasn't her thing!.
Todays plan is to buy smaller beds to get the inner tents up. This should stop the creepy crawlies and keep the beds dryer!. I hope this will work otherwise it will be the end to a beautiful friendship LOL .
Melanie has been for a run & now she is having a shower. I will take a shower and before it gets too hot we are going to blitz Dordogne with posters.
Until next time ...

Amanda and Melanie