Our dinner with the English couple, John
& Jean on Boxing Day night was good fun. Their daughter Christine and another English couple Roy
& Linda were also invited.
When Roy walked in the door he baulked, he appeared stunned for a
moment. As it turned out he has a
friend who lives in Australia. His
name is Ron Beasley and looks like Jim.
For a moment Roy said he thought Jim was Ron. He was a funny guy.
The night passed quickly with quite a few bottles of red wine being
drunk and lots of laughs. One
disappointment, the promise of plum pudding didn’t come to fruition but there
was a yummy baked cheesecake with dried fruit and lemon.
Lunch on Friday, our Christmas treat at La
Bruceliere in Issiegeac was delicious.
The food was typically French.
Lucky I translated the menu before we went so we had a good idea of what
we wanted but the waitress was very accommodating and spoke good English.
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| The first course at La Bruceliere - the start |
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| The attack |
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| The finish |
Tomorrow is New Years Eve and we’re going to stay the night in Bergerac at a hotel, not to see the New Year in but for
easy access to the train station.
It is a five-minute walk from our hotel. Our train for Paris leaves at 8.30am on Wednesday
morning. It is 6-hour train trip. It is the only train to get us to the
airport in time for our flight at 9pm.
We fly to Delhi via Dubai, arriving in Delhi at 2.45pm on Thursday 2
January.
Jim and I will spend Thursday and Friday
nights in Delhi together before we say goodbye for 2 months. Jim will fly to Srinagar and make his
way to Gulmarg for the winter while I fly to Trivandrum in Kerala to stay at
the Sivananda ashram for a yoga course for the month of January.
On February 3rd I’ll meet my parents in
Surin Beach, Thailand for two weeks then my friend Sharon from Melbourne will
join me for a week before Jim arrives on February 26 for a few days.
On March 1st we go to Koh Lanta for a week where we will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary on March 5th. Whew! lucky we made it.
We have rented a house on the beach for the week.
We are ready to say goodbye to the
girls. They are lovely but have
been naughty at times. For the
past few days we have been taking turns getting up to them during the night -
3am and then again at 5am or 6am to prevent any mishaps over night. Not sure what is worse – getting up
twice through the night and having interrupted sleep or waking up to mess in
the morning if we don’t.
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| Lone apple - Jim's arty shot |
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| Our 'penultimate' walk together this afternoon |
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