I have gone down to Thezan with friend/carpenter/designer Clive Nunn to install the kitchen in the Presbytere.

We headed off on the Oscar Wilde, still run fairly impeccibly by Eastern Europeans, I say fairly impeccibly because while the boat is still very friendly and clean the food seems to have taken a turn for the worse.
Our barman on the way over was called Vlad which caused much amusement to us.There seems to be no end to the jokes one can make on a name forever associated with an impaler.At a Eurotoques meeting in Brussels a few years ago I met a putative member from Hungary who had been christened Atilla by his mother. A fairly common occurance in Hungary he assured me but a difficult choice for an Irishman to take without shock.

We had a lovely sun filled trip down through France, did the whole 1,100 klms in just under 11 hours, mainly because it was a sunday and the autoroutes are clear of lorries on that day.
The house was welcoming and full of sun, yesterday the temperature on the terrace reached a comrortable 28 centegrade.

The kitchen is coming on nicely and i should have some good work in progress pictures before the week is out.