Yesterday, after my swim, I learned how to play boules, aka petanque, aka bocce. I’m not sure flicking heavy steel balls across the yard is the best thing to do when one’s broken wrist is healing.

The whole cast and crew had dinner last night at a nearby restaurant. It’s the only place to eat in the tiny village, but it’s an awfully good one. Most had either sea bass or lamb; I had an omelette made with local forest mushrooms. I don’t even *like* mushrooms but the dish was still good. It was also cool to see the chef whipping up the feast over a wood fire. All that, plus lots of wine, a dessert crepe and fun conversations at multiple tables made it a great evening. We even saw a deer on the drive home.

Upon our return home we had a few more drinks and chatted, with the last few of us calling it quits around 1AM. One of these days I’ll get to bed before midnight.

Today we got up and checked out the market in Auch. I was more interested in the cathedral and old town than the market. We did some poking around and ate some lunch, and got a little lost on the way home. We arrived back at the chateau to find the preparations underway (we just missed the pig being gutted, thankfully) and decided to chill in our room for a while. Nellie watched Freaks and Geeks; I listened to Vampire Weekend, The National and Interpol.

[tags]france, lartigolle, auch[/tags]