We thought we’d just drive through Villefranche-de-Rouergue on the way out this morning. So busy. We found a small car park with some people, loaded up with flowers and other stuff, standing beside a car. We asked them if they were going, which shocked them, they asked how did we know they spoke English. We let them know that the GB car registration was a little hint. With so many cars looking for parking spots (clever cars huh. Maybe it was the car’s occupants looking), we were very lucky to find this one. There was a big Thursday market on on a number of the squares (most are not square) and the town was full of people. There was the most fantastic selection of flowers, vegies, meats, breads etc. While Rick went up the tower of Notre Dame, Gill bought a selection of nice olives, then coffee overlooking the market. We were amused to see a nun with her crepe stall on the steps of Notre Dame. Another great place we hadn’t planned to visit, but spent a couple of hours. We missed a quick turn getting out of town and ended up zig zaging through the narrowest streets we have driven along. Right angle turns were rather close.
Now for more canal stuff. Must have been a few days since we looked at this stuff. We detoured to Moissac to look at an aqueduct, some locks, canals and a river. The aqueduct is 365 metres long and was built between 1842 and 1846.
Tomorrow we get to Joan and John’s house in Montreal-du-Gers. Seems like a lot of water has gone under the bridge (ha ha) since we were on the canal boat with them in UK. Looking forward to seeing them.
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