Damazan

 

It's Sunday morning and as we leave town there's a vide grenier on so we stop for a look

It's the way they do garage sales here. Either the whole town or just a few streets in a suburb will hold one.

  Passed this very unusual wash house , or Laverie , where even up to quite recently, women would do their washing together. By recently I mean 30 years

The kilometres tick over steadily, we pass a nuclear power station

Before long we've done 20kms and arrive in Agen for our coffee fix. Not a spectacular town

except for the 2nd largest canal bridge in France. 580 metres long as it crosses the Garonne 

Look at that sky ! The walkers and cyclists are out in their hundreds ( it's a big town)

This department is the 'Lot and Garonne' and has 100s of acres of apples and kiwi fruit . I don't think they prune them though because they were all a mess !

Lunch time ! And we buy fruit and yogurt at the supermarket in Serignac . Lovely little village , very old , the church is 16th century and the builder must have had a sence of humour judging by the twisted  steeple

And here's a free book stall again. Read the book and visit a web page inside the front cover and say where you've dropped it off. Just a bit of fun but incredible how far a book can travel

  This is Buzet-sur-Baise and where boats can leave the canal and go on the Lot river. 

We pass a Kiwi with his brand new barge he had built in North England

The plain trees are so high and dense here that it's dark and eerie. Sadly it won't be for long though as most trees are showing signs of the canker

These kids don't mind how dirty the water looks

 Time to find a bed . Damazan didn't look hopeful but we eventually tracked down a Chambre on a vineyard , 3 kms out of town