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09/21/2004: "Return from France"


On Sunday Cheryl and I had to be out of the gite by 11, and the market in Esperza would be in full swing, so I pulled the car up close to the gite and aided by Michael, tossed out gear into the trunk of the car and headed down the road to find some way to park in Esperza and 'do' the market and then after the market packed out and left, pick up Suzanne and Kaye. We enjoyed a stroll thru the market and found a couple of keepsakes and ran into Suzanne and Kaye at a 'high fashion' emporium. Suzanne was trying on some wrap-around pants in the back of a van with the 'sales manager' holding up a mirror for her to see how to they fit. She ended up buying them and a 'few' other last minute things. Cheryl and I went on down to the bar and joined shortly by Ellie and John and had coffee and Orangina while enjoying the ambience of the market. Sunday is the main market day, but there is another, smaller one on Thurs. Everything you can imagine is sold there from tools, food, clothing of all sorts and household goods. Ellie and John bought themselves some deep fried thistles or some such and headed home to eat lunch and feed Daffy, their Dalmatian, planning to meet us again to TRY to pack all the luggage in our car so they could avoid a trip to Toulouse. Suzanne apparently took a nap while the other 3 wandered down to the small Cafe where the Artistes Breakfast meets to have lunch. Again, it was a wonderful, simple meal!

At 2, we were finally able to pull the car out front of Sasha's B&B, despite the sculpture in the street and began trying to fit all the bags in the car. Ellie's the genius John had told us she was, so it finally all went into the car and off we dashed to Toulouse and even more adventure! We got there and altho' having a map to the hotel Ellie had recommended that was near the airport, we just couldn't find it! So, around and around we wandered...for probably 30 minutes (seemed more like 2 hours to the driver). When we found it, we found that the prices we'd been quoted were considerably higher and Suzanne's room had not been cleaned, so just simply checking in was a real effort. Then planning how to arrange to get the rented car to the airport and all of us and our many cases was another problem. So, we asked directions of the manager and using them and ignoring Cheryl's very well printed out map...his were left, right, left...much easier to follow than a computer generated map for weary painters as we were, we got to the airport and while two went in to see if we could check our larger bags for the next day (no, we couldn't) Kaye and I found how to get to the Auto Europe Rental Drop off spot from the terminal...and did a couple of 'dry runs' so that I'd know the way at 4 am (not my best time of day).

We then got lost going back to the Hotel only to find that they didn't serve supper on Sunday night!

Cont'd Part 2...

Replies: 9 Comments.

on Saturday, September 25th, Pat D. Stephens said

Be sure to go to Suzanne's page to view the first 4 paintings she did while there...
http://www.art-by-suzanne.com/pages/private_collections_landscapes.html

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