Friday...One of the draw backs of living on the Rue de Cailletiere, it turns out, is how busy it is even early in the morning it is quite common for delivery lorries or vans to turn up between 4 and 6 am. This morning we counted 5 separate deliveries. The slamming of doors and trolleys reverberates around the otherwise empty street and through the house.
Out to La Flotte market and boutiques, by bike, for cadeaux and simple provisions for when we get home. Then back via Rive Doux to make a promenade out of it. Trade in the bikes for money... that is we hand in the bikes and pay the hire fee ...bye bye bikes! We take the car for the last errands. Over to Les vignerons de l'ile de Re, based at Bois Plage, to pick up some wine for home. We did our tasting during the week so no need to taste at the degustation point. Just as well as there is a rare old party atmosphere going down!. Its a slick operation; taste, order, pay, take order print out to collection point, trolleys are provided. There is no price avantage over the supermarkets, they all sell the range, except maybe case rates. It is however very convenient. Its not exceptional cru but for the price its not bad. I have paid more and got alot less and there is a wide variety of choice to suit the discerning palette or indeed no palette at all. Wine loaded over to Leclerc for stuff and fuel. Back to base to clean the house and then for some late Petanque. Ironically having been to the Vgnerons; I later bought a bottle of Merlot that we hadn't tasted previously and had not included in the wines we had bought. After a sip, we looked at each other we read each others minds, could it be...? potentially it was superior to the reds we had bought...Ho Hum!!.. After Petanque... 2-1 to me!...bye bye petanque pitches!.. we said farewell to the beach and the Atlantique; bye bye beach; bye bye Altantique. We trapsed back shoulders slumped; gallic shrug...cest la vie, and had Baquette Sarmentine and the last of our Chevre au herbes and Fleur de ile de Re and a cheeky little merlot. It will be 27 degrees to morrow across most of France, Shorts and T for the drive back I think!!.
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