TLC Needed and Received

Feeling pretty rotten so the small fortune that we paid to have the gîte cleaned for us was worth every euro. We're both coughing as if we'd worked down the pit from an early age. To heap on the misery, we had to turn back to collect a bag that we'd left, it was cold, wet and windy and lunch was a disaster ... a sandwich in a busy service station.
We were really pleased to arrive at Jean and John's holiday home just outside Cognac. They warmed us up with tea and made us comfortable in front of the fire then later on wined and dined us in good style with Christmas crackers and all.