They look different in France, and especially when you can't get into the nearby Logis because it's been booked solid by hunters. No wonder I support banning guns in America! Their evil spreads!
Jeremy, is that the chateau (circumflex exists on this iPad but I can't suss how to employ it) that you were going to use for the cancelled celebration?
La chasse is phenomenally popular in that part of the world, and even more so further west, where my wife's mother lived. There's a very high murder rate, too: lots of small communities, people isolated, everyone has a shotgun, petty jealousies and illicit liaisons... I'm reminded also, of course, of Tom Lehrer's wonderful
hunting song.
It's complex, Rob. No - we were all going to stay at one of their others, Cardou (where my "curve" shot was taken, in fact). That was obviously severely disrupted, and by chance the group who had rented this one for the following week cancelled, so Bill and Jo, who own it, said we could have it for a few days. It was nice to have some time to recover.
Circumflex: press and hold the e and a range of accented characters will appear.
I like your Abbey pic.
Jeremy
(For those who don't know and may be puzzled by it, Rob's comment relates to the sudden death of my mother-in-law at the beginning of August, just before we were due to have a house party for a week at Cardou.)