We spent a wonderful day exploring the chateau and town of Azay-le-Rideau. When we got back to Montsoreau in the afternoon we found the Conforma people had already come to deliver our new mattresses. Unfortunately, we weren’t there to receive them. We had arranged for the delivery to be made on the next day, Friday. We tried to call the company but it was difficult finding someone who thought that this was a problem. Finally, while we were on hold, we went across the street to ask Gregoire, the guy who staffs the Maison de Parc Naturel Regional, to help us. He had no trouble rescheduling the delivery, but he never did get a satisfactory reason why they had come a day early. It seems that Tim Holland’s theory is correct!
With all that taken care of we could relax a little. Helen said she would like some rosé wine so we walked down to our local wine vendor to buy a couple of bottles. Between the three of us we were able to communicate what we wanted to the woman in charge and her teenage daughter who was helping out. I asked the teenager if she could speak English. She said she couldn’t even though she has been studying it for five years. We didn’t feel so bad about our feeble efforts to speak French when we heard that.
As it started to get dusky we walked down to the creperie for dinner.
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