Maximum temperature today 32C, minimum 17C. Very dry. 17km/h North-easterly winds with gusts up to 27 km/h.
Thank you to everyone for the comments on the previous blog.
Celebrating my birthday; 19 August.
As above, our friends Michael and Mary from the USA.
Driving home - the weighbridge at Marillac-le-Franc...
The scales as above.
Same town as above, Eglise Saint Didier...
As above.
The lavoir at St Adjutory with M and M.
Resistance Memorial at Chasseneuil sur Bonnieure...
A little closer.
Old houses in Cognac 1 September...
A sundial on a wall...
Waiting for the gates to open for a tour of Chateau Royal de Cognac, the home of Baron Otard Cognac...
Waiting in the reception...
The smell in the cellars is amazing 😉
Note: the spiders that live down here have got so used to the alcoholic fumes that they cannot live out of the building!!!!
Tasting the amazing cognac after a fabulous tour.
Highly recommended, both tour and cognac.
Finally standing on the bridge in Cognac looking down the Charente river.
As I said previously blogs are going to be very hit and miss for the remainder of this year.















