Not much to tell you about today, except that although we speak about being in Orléans for a month, we're actually in the country-side outside the village of Boigny, which is in the town of Checy. So today was a bit of a logistics day: laundry, grocery shopping in Neuville-aux-Bois (where Cindy got herself a loyalty card to Super U), and reading. We did catch a small market in Neuville where we bought a mellon. It was a really small market.
We met the owner of our flat in Chateau de la Bretauche today, Sylvie, who had just returned from visiting her son who is studying math in Bergen, Norway. She is a very warm and energetic person. We are her first renters of this place. She took a photo of us behind the chateau, below.
I've decided to start a periodic feature in the blog as it goes on; roll the Ta-Da music: Culinary Discoveries. Retroactively, the 'duck in a can' would have qualified for this, but the inaugural feature is: gin on mango. Try it. You'll love it. Slice up your ripe mango and splash a bit of gin on it. You may never eat mango without it again. This isn't so much a French things as it was Patrick's (see April -- blog entry) thing. Ça marche!
(47°55'7.2"N, 2°01'10.9"E)
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