I am sitting in Mireille’s beautiful sunroom watching the
tide come in as the sun is setting. We
just finished a delicious meal (our first homecooked meal in several
weeks). Mireille has gone off to deliver
some items to her neighbors and will be back later. She has forbidden us from doing dishes
(tonight).
The island is really spectacular. You can only enter or leave the island when
the tide is out so everything you do always need to take that into
account. We entered around 4 p.m. and as
we came across, we saw Mireille driving out!
She had an errand to run and told us where her house was. Another friend is also staying and she
greeted us when we got there.
We talked for awhile and then Mireille’s friend, Franca,
took us on a walking tour of the island.
There are about 30 houses here and an old stone church (of course). We walked to the end where there is a nice
sand beach. The tide was out so you
couldn’t swim there (and it was overcast anyways) but perhaps on another day
when it is sunny we will brave the cold of the English Channel!
When we walked back to the house, we found ourselves locked
out! Mireille has some workers here and they had packed up for the day and
locked the house. We searched in vain
for another entrance and eventually gave up and waited for Mireille to
return. She had a good laugh at us for
getting locked out so quickly after arriving!
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