Day 22 Brossac

We slept in, had a leisurely breakfast, then walked into the village to get rice salad ingredients for a BBQ which we were invited to down at the local lake that evening.  It was organised by the local retailers as a general get together and so Paul and the volunteers were going along.  There were only three other residents at La Giraudiere that night - three Erasmus students from Russia, Germany and Spain.  They were all very nice, and were basically doing a gap year studying French before starting at their respective universities.
Before going back after our shopping trip we visited a restaurant we hadn't seen before, called Quai Sud.  It was attached to the caravan park, and had very good service.  We had a carafe of wine and two beers as well as a meat/cheese platter. We didn't normally eat alone as it is not encouraged by Paul, but we couldn't resist this one.
Once back at La Giraudiere we made the rice salad then relaxed before going to the picnic.  The people of Brossac are very friendly, and are used to the changing shifts of volunteers at La Giraudiere, so you never feel out of place. I had a few glasses of grapefruit rose cask wine, which sounds terrible, but, as with most of their cask wine, was surprisingly good.  We walked back to the homestead around 11 pm.