I was the only one that did the 7km walk - the rest of the group including Bill completed the 12 km walk through beautiful forests and laneways.The scenery was amazing and it's all within our little village and the surrounding area.
It was then followed by the obligatory 3 hour lunch with wine included.
Not sure how many more of these walks I can take if there are more lunches involved. Although we have signed up for another 12km walk tomorrow from Gouzon. I am told by a reliable source that the route is not uphill like this one was. So chances of me having a heart attack maybe less likely.
And of course there is another lunch with wine - all for 8 euros.
Last week we received a call from Austria to say that our goods from Australia had landed in Rotterdam and were being delivered by truck on Wednesday. Great news. We were very excited as we had forgotten a lot of what we had packed as we thought it would stay in storage in Australia for another few years.
So our truck arrived at 8.30am on Wed. The weather had been great up to that point and then decided to turn bad. It was snowing on the day the truck arrived and we unloaded the boxes into the barn in snow.
Our truck driver was a young man from the Ukraine. He had driven for 2 days with only a couple of hours sleep and then had another delivery to make to the South of France after us. I made him some strong coffee with some biscuits and we tipped him 10 euros - enough to buy a sandwich and coffee on his next route.
He was telling us that there is not a lot of money in the Ukraine - he was a soldier but there was no money in it so he started driving trucks.
So we started unpacking the boxes after moving them from the barn into the kitchen in the snow.
I had to rearrange all our kitchen cupboards, linen cupboard and bedrooms to fit some of it in.
We had 3 boxes of crockery and things that we donated to the local parish that we attend every second Tuesday to help out with setting up tables and washing up. They thought it was Christmas when they opened the boxes of goodies. It felt good that we were giving something that could be used and needed.
We also had fun unpacking as each item we unpacked led to a gasp of "Oh wow, I had forgotten I had packed/ kept that." It was like Christmas for us also.
Bill prayed to the VEGEMITE KING - we are now stocked up for awhile. Thanks to Mick, our youngest son, for throwing in a few jars into the boxes for us. It should keep us going until 2018.
We only had 2 breakages. One was my big white vase ( a 30th birthday present from Bill - so I was extremely disappointed) and a crystal bowl that I loved as well which was in the same box. Fortunately Bill has been able to repair the vase as it broke in big pieces.
It took 3 months and 2 weeks to arrive by ship door to door.
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Until my next post.
Wendy
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