Day 12: Another semi-lazy day in sunny Puisserguier

Margot says:

I'm having a great holiday. Catherine is doing everything. She does the driving, communicating in French, the Google mapping, dealing with Tomasina (a.k.a. our GPS TomTom system), the grocery shopping and last night she did a home cooked meal. It was the best pasta sauce you've ever tasted - but of course that was due to the chorizo sausage we bought at Les Halles in Narbonne, nothing to do with her culinary skills!

Oh, and she even does the photography and blogging - I just dictate!

Today we spent two and a half hours in the doctor's surgery waiting room. Catherine used this time productively by writing out her script to read to the female doctor. Prior to departing Australia Catherine was prescribed quite strong antibiotics and cortisone for a respiratory infection which she hasn't quite recovered from so she needed to get it checked out. She was quite pleased with herself as the whole consultation was done in French, so she really is picking up the language quite quickly.

I'm doing quite well too in the language departement, considering the 18 month old toddler in the waiting room kept waving and saying to me au revoir! I understood this! Then she would run to her mother and say maman. I tried to get Catherine to say this too, but at 45 years of age it just wouldn't have had the same effect!

We were quite surprised that the doctor's visit only cost 23 euros! Back at home, our beloved George (as in, Dr Stathakopoulous), charges us AU$75! The bag of prescription medicines we had to come away with was about 40 euros, which is on par with the cost back home.

Catherine needs to take it a bit quiet this week before we leave here on Saturday - next stop Beaumont-du-Périgord. Strangely enough each and every time we mention our next stop, they all laugh and make big fat faces and tell us that we'll be doing nothing but eating. We are staying at a B&B owned by a Michelin star master chef so it looks like we'll be doing exactly that!

Bill Caldwell, of PAS, has given us a few restaurant recommendations in the area surrounding Puisserguier and we'll be doing our best to visit them before we leave for our next gourmet sojourn on Saturday.