This was a day when we'd planned to go into Le Mans and to find a supermarket to stock up on fresh food and to take in a trip to a cinema to watch one of the summer blockbusters. However, we found that all of the films were in French having been dubbed which took away the incentive to spend on tickets. However, we did find a huge shopping centre which included a massive supermarket which seemed to suply everything including Death on the Nile, a DVD we got for our evening's viewing instead of the cinema.
Once sorted we drove on a few kilometres to stay overnight at Saint Saturnin where there was a public toilet which was essentially automated, the flush going when the door was opened when you entered and left. There was no need to touch anything and it was in excellent order. The short trip there provided the most tricky driving moment of the entire holiday. We took a slip road which led us on to a road where there was a low bridge. We would have hit it but fortunately in France they seem to have these wires with plastic tubes hanging down to indicate the coming hazard, hitting the tubes being no problem compared to ramming the bridge!! I was able to back up slightly and get back onto the other road without causing too much of a hold up and we were back on track. It could have been so much worse!!
Saint Saturnin was the same as everywhere else, spotless, full of planting and a pleasure to walk around. There was a lake which we walked around and saw plenty of ducks and even a mink which was swimming happily close to us without a care. The photos capture a sense of how lovely even this small town was, including another of the many lizards we saw on the holiday.
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