We had breakfast sitting outside a wee café beside Bordeaux train station, and caught our half past ten train for the fifty minute journey to Marmande in Lot-et-Garonne. Jennifer collected us by car and soon we arrived at her beautiful house in the countryside. It is absolutely fantastic, a dream house with a swimming pool, surrounded by fields. So rural and yet near lots of gorgeous villages. They bought it at the end of last year and they got the keys in the spring. We were greeted by Russ and we all had lunch sitting outside the house before settling into our bedroom which even has an en suite bathroom. Inside the house has flagstones in the hall and wooden floors in all the rooms and it is cool and airy. In the afternoon Jenn and Russ took us for a run in the car to the absolutely stunning medieval village of Villeréal where we strolled about and had coffee. I went into a pharmacy and bought some cold remedy for the slight but annoying cold that I have developed. Then we drove the short distance to Lac Lougratte which is a swimming lake; Jenn, Russ and I had a swim while James walked around the lake twice to stretch his legs. The water seemed a little chilly at first but actually it was perfect and much warmer than the sea! The setting was idyllic with a little swimming platform that we could climb up on. And in the evening we went to another delightful village, Eymet, where we had a delicious dinner in the Restaurant Italien des Arcades. The food really was first class. Back at the house we relaxed beside the wood burning stove before heading to bed exhausted but happy.
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