APRIL IN ABJAT SUR BANDIAT

Well we set off nice and early and ready for our April event. I had booked a bed and breakfast with one of our exhibitors but kept it a secret from Melanie. It was driving her mad guessing who it could be.

As we entered into a zone of beautiful countryside with scattered wooded area's Melanie kept asking for clues eventually she guessed it was John and Sue Sidwell. It took her long enough!!.
Sue greeted us at her beautiful home and showed us to our fantastic room with double doors leading to a Romeo and Juliet style balcony.
Wow what a paradise for hard working Angels like us.
We contacted Rose who had helped us so much to publicise the event if she new of a good place to eat.
Well she gave us a huge list and with that we got ready to go out. Just as we were leaving John and Sue invited us for an aperitif and invited us to stay for a Curry on Saturday night. Gosh we were being spoilt.
We went to a cosy little Tavern opposite a chateau owned by what we were told a very strange man. The people who rented the Tavern were Italian and very friendly they couldn't do enough help and the service was excellent. We were both too tired to wait for the Jazz band to start playing so we headed back for a early night.
Saturday morning
We thought we would hand out our leaflets at the local market in Nontron. Of course nothing was that simple. When looking for a parking space the police were there telling us to move over. We wondered what was going on and then within a flash we were in the middle of a protest for saving the local school. We couldn't move people were giving us their protest leaflets through the window and even the Mayor said hello.

Finally when the protest had moved on we found a parking space and began to work. We had a very successful time and then went to the supermarket to put more leaflets on cars. We bought some lunch and returned to our B&B. At 4pm we went to the venue to set up and to put the sign panels up. We finished about 6pm and headed back as we had a curry being cooked for us.
We had a fantastic time and look for to the fair tomorrow.