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Well, we survived the night in our Loire Valley Chateau, and it does indeed look a lot better by day...
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... although I kept the getaway car running just in case.
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But the one advantage of being the only guests at L'Aubriere was that we had the pool to ourselves the following day...
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Obviously a day by the pool requires swimming goggles for moi, and as they were one of the many things I had left at home, we started the day on a mission to find a sports shop. Which would have been fine if either of us could speak French. We eventually stopped in a Simply Supermarché (the French answer to Lidl) and I asked a friendly employee the way to Decatlon sports shop. Ten minutes later he was still providing me with directions which I couldn't have remembered even if they had been in English. I provided him with a pen, so he spent another 10 minutes writing them down...
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I don't think it occurred to him that people who can't speak French probably can't read it either.
At this point, P1 and I decided that no pair of swimming goggles was worth sacrificing hours of sunbathing time, so we abandoned our mission, stopped at our local Chateaux Supermarché (the French answer to Wal-mart) and I found said goggles.
A day of sun, swimming and happiness ensued, after which I was keen to experience some more chateaux culture. P1 was chateauxed out by now, but after some negotiation (I promised that we would only stay at 'modern' hotels in future) I dragged him to this place before we left Loire...
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A few chateaux photo competitions later and we were on our merry way down to Sarlat in the Dordogne...
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