[Itinerary Page]The Daily Diary of a Wandering Restaurateur
A Lazy Day in Sarlat
Getting online has been a struggle. There is no wifi in the house and my fallback idea of using the 3G signal from my tablet PC as a portable hotspot has been hit and miss (and, it appears, expensive!) Even the wifi at a local coffee house wasn't registering on my computer this morning. With an e-letter due and trip reports waiting, it took three hours to finally get everything uploaded today ... and by then it was almost noon!
[If I can't find a better solution to this issue, I could end up spending most of the trip on my laptop! Even under the best circumstances it takes an hour a day just to edit photos and write things up, never mind the struggle to get them online. So rather than sacrifice the entire trip to this service, I will do my best to write the daily diary in a timely manner and upload the photos and reports only when I find a decent connection. Thanks for understanding.]
When we finally got back to the house, the others had already left in search of gardens, picnics and the like. Margene and I didn't have that much ambition so we did some mundane but necesary errands -- a run to the supermarket, top off the diesel in the car -- then laid around the pool in the sunshine. I even went tor a quick dip! It is still pre-season, so the water was cool -- refreshing in short doses, chilling over time.
Dinner, as usual, was our typical urban picnic on the terrace, enhanced this time with a couple of truffle omelettes. Of course, our wine stock had run down so we had to make a mercy run into town to reload. The town was too photogenic not to capture on film ... or in pixels. Every direction you turn is a postcard shot!
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