Rainy days in La Ferté sous Jouarre

Rain.  It started rainging during the night and continued on and off to varying degrees all day on Sunday.  We went to a farmer’s market in the town.  Ian was in his element because there was a collection of ancient tractors, in working order, blowing smoke rings, bouncing on their springs, making lots of smoke and noise. 

There were also pigs, goats, geese, chickens, cows, llamas and horses to admire. 

Carriage rides through the streets were on offer 

A cider apple processing machine

And cheeses, lots and lots of cheeses.  Unfortunately Ian went off to admire the tractors with the camera because I really wanted to take a pic of the cheeses.  I stood in the queue for ages waiting to be served and the young man in charge of the stall kept cutting samples of various cheeses and handing them out to those in the queue.  He also had a salami type sausage (delicious) and cured and dried fillet mignon.  Well, that was just too delicious to resist and I ended up spending €20 on cheese and fillet.  The heavens opened up just as we started to walk home.  We ducked into Chinese shop to buy an umbrella (even though we were soaked already) and, of course, when we came out the rain had stopped.  

The wind has also picked up and the temperature has fallen.  Right now (Monday) it is after midday and it just 7.5C so we are staying put – free pontoon, free electricity and a small heater to keep us cosy and warm, books to read and a strong internet signal.  What more do we need?  

Tomorrow is a holiday and the locks will all be closed so we not leave here till Wednesday.