Saturday 10 June 2017

Up earlyish as we wanted to go into town for the market and have a looksee before it got too warm so after breakfast collected a few bits for the dog in a backpack and set off – the receptionist said it was 5 mins but that was only to the edge and the centre was nearer 20mins. No bother we're not rushing and we wandered into a fairly typical French town, finding the town hall easily enough and plenty of shops – but of the market no sign. We knew we were in the right place at the right time, one of the info booklets we'd been given confirmed it, but it looked like it had been cancelled.

Impressive Hotel de Ville

University

 So we bought a baguette then paused for a while at a cafe for a cold drink before heading back in the direction of the site, taking a detour to view another of the Roman remains, this time the Temple of Janus. Not a lot of information available and nothing to confirm it was anything religious, the name having been given to it long after the Romans had left.

Temple de Janus

Back at Bertie we had lunch then settled down to an afternoon of, well, nothing really. The temperature was now around 30ºC in the shade and the sun too hot to sit out in it. Thankfully with the awning out we encouraged a light breeze so we were quite comfortable. Later ice creams then a very late tea when it had cooled down somewhat.

Forecast is for warmer tomorrow. Hmmmm.