Saturday 4th July

Another busy day here in Eymet.  To Bergerac to drop off my wife (Birthday Party in UK) and pick up a hire car for my sister.  After lunch we drove to the beautiful but somewhat sterile town of Monpazier.  It is the most picturesque and perfect of the Bastides but is somehow too perfect, too picture-postcard pretty.  Then to Monbahus, a tiny village tucked beneath a hill where in 1848 a folly was built.  A round turret with a statue of the Madonna on it.  It is perched on top of a perfectly round hill and you walk round and can see all different views over the surrounding countryside.  Today also (we have been here a couple of times before) you could go in and walk up some wooden step to the top of the turret.

This evening music in le Pub was Terry, Gerry and Suzie.  We have seen them a few times but they were never as good as this.  They sing quite beautifully despite being well into their sixties and are a little bit country, a little but corny, but never cheesy.  You know all the songs and we were all (as usual) singing along.  They started at 8.30 and stopped for half an hour at 9.30 then played again until 12 midnight.  And the songs just kept getting better and better.  They really could rock too, especially when Kenny got up and led us all through Honky Tonk Women.  They even played some Abba and Judy Garland.  Quite a few of us got up and danced and everyone had to agree it really was a wonderful, another wonderful, night in Eymet.