France, week 3 — Saturday

Actually left the comfort of the poolside today, and walked from the house to the village of Le Fel through the sweet chestnut forests. Really beautiful. Children walked well and had walking sticks carved for them on the way. Took us over three hours to get to Le Fel, and on the way we met with a 'neighbour' in the next hamlet who is setting up a conservation area and was very interested to hear about our lizard friend under the terrace (he lives in the same hamlet as Harry the pool cleaner) who he suggested was a Spanish Ocellated lizard, and quite rare in France. We also managed to squeeze in a quick wine tasting in Le Fel before Papa run back in 36 minutes (that bit is important) to collect the car and pick us all up from a cute little park at the pretty hilltop camp site.