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A second post in one day, qué pasa? After work today we managed a short walk around the town. We got our tokens and so managed to replenish the water supplies and empty our waste.  We bought a spare token just in case we ever come across another machine like that one. It's odds on that we will have that token now for ever but if we ever do need it I will have a very smug look on my face. I will be smugness personified. I will be smugger than a smug person who has just graduated form the University of Smugness. It has been a bit entertaining today watching other motorhomers looking at the machine in various states of bewilderment.

We found a couple of semi-interesting buildings. Firstly the Sereilhac Post Office and Telegraph building. It looks like it is original. You will probably be best to click on the image and zoom in a bit to get a better look. It is quite a nice building.

No village or town in France is complete without it's old church. They certainly knew how to build things to last in the old day. I can't imagine the cost to replicate something like this today and it is not really an ornate one. It's just a plain simple church but the stone masons must have spent more than a few hours getting those blocks ready.

The village hall was a less than spectacular building but it did have a pretty decent tree in the garden. It was shaped like a toadstool and obviously well manicured. It isn't clear whether the "trunk" of the tree is a separate hedge or if the foliage grows out of the side of the trunk somehow. Either way it is pretty cool.

The fishing pond beside our parking spot did a roaring trade today with fishermen coming and going all morning. We saw a few of them leave with several portion sized (just) rainbow trout.

That is the KAYAK right in the middle of the image (below, the image below!)
The path goes right around the pond and makes for a very pleasant stroll. 

So there we have it. A rather unspectacular village in the middle of France. The locals that we did encounter were, by our experience of French standards, pretty nice. On all of our travels to over 30 countries we have found French people to be the least tolerant of our language shortfalls but today the people we met went some distance to redress that balance and be quite friendly. The token ladies were particularly nice so well done to them. Thank you for making us feel, probably for the first time ever, welcome in France. Tomorrow we are probably on the move again in the direction of Paris. I hope we will be welcome there.





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