day 20 – draft
Monday, 25 April 2016 (ANZAC Day)
Eauze - at rest - sort of
00 km today - 536 km to date

Watched Serge and Michel get ready and go as I lazily go through breakfast.  Get ready and go to the nearest doctor, who is just across the street.  No receptionist and we informally organise who is next ourselves.  Marie-France, the gite owner comes in to see me and she talks and I nod.  My turn at last and I meet a very pleasant middle aged man.   We converse as best we can: he examines me and I do my best to answer his questions.  in the end he gives me  a script for an anti-inflammatory and gives me a fulsome note of what I am to do,   I pay him directly 23 Euro, get the mess for 2. 99 Euro and go back to the gite to place ice around the distracting area.

After a while of doing I that decide to look around Eauze.  The biggest find is The Tresor of Eauze:  a hoard of some 30,000 plus coins from when an area adjoining the present town had been a Roman city. It was estimated the value of the coins was enough to pay at least 100 farm labourers for a  year.  Not only coins but about 20 pieces of jewellery, most of which women of today would choose to wear.

Back to the gite and more ice and an attempt to write more daily blogs.

Just me and Christianne, from near Montreal, Quebec, for dinner, so English can be spoken.  Mike, an American from Aransas, is cooking his own dinner but joins us for aperitif and desert.

And so to bed.