Our last two days have been spent mainly with the locals. Neighbours of Anne and Bob, Noel and Nanette, invited us for an aperitif on Monday. Nanette's mother was a Given from Ardara and Noel's family Griffin from Inch Island so it turns out they know Donegal very well. Both of them were in the RAF and Noel then joined the Rank organisation finally becoming a personal finance advisor. When they retired they found London too pressurised and found their lovely house outside Eysus on the internet. They bought it in 2005 and have been here since. They also invited Tim and Joanne. Joanne is originally Belgian and Tim's family came from Limerick. Joanne and Tim met in South Africa where Tim grew up. We had a lovely couple of hours drinking wine and eating canapes.
Today we had lunch with Eric and Prisca in Arette. Eric and Prisca exchanged with Evy and Geoffrey years ago and have kept up contact with them and the Morrows ever since. They have been to a few parties in our house and Eric came to my 60th birthday party. Today we were treated to a lovely lunch a la francaise and had a wonderful time catching up.
And now, all that remains is the packing and the cleaning up and back to Danielle's for one last night.
Views from our exchange balcony of the sunset over the Pyrenees.
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