If it is Friday in Lectoure, I go to the market on Rue Nationale! Always fun and it’s where I buy most of my fruits and vegetables. We have friends with fruit growing in their gardens too, so I picked blackberries and figs in Susan’s garden and plums and pears in Agnes’ garden.
We have ripe grapes in our garden too! We have more than we can possibly eat, so we share with neighbors and friends.
We met friends, Kay and Jay for lunch on Friday, at L’Auberge de Tournecoupe, a new favorite restaurant! We stopped by Chateau Saint-Leonard after, to take a close up look at the crumbling chateau.
On Friday evening, Kelly and Jean-Pierre came for dinner and we went to the Blues Festival in Marrioniers Park. Jean-Pierre brought several suit jackets for Papa to try on and borrow for an event we’re going to in early September. Papa doesn’t have “dress up clothes” in Lectoure!
On Saturday morning, I went on one of my walking routes, partially on the Chemin de Saint-Jacques. It winds down narrow paths and country lanes, through fields of sunflowers and alfalfa.
We had a late lunch in the small village of Lannepax on Sunday at La Falene Bleue, on the Michelin recommended list. Our lunch was delicious! After lunch, we drove a bit further south to Lupiac, birthplace of d’Artagnan, a fictional character who dreams of joining the King’s Musketeers in the book, The Three Musketeers. Lupiac was hosting a weekend fete, but it was quite hot, and not so many people on a Sunday afternoon, except for young fencers, and a beautifully painted carriage taking people for rides. It is a pretty village.
