Sunday 27 April 2014

A Slight Delay!

After a very wet few hours at the Brocante-ing in Le Grand Pressigny today, our drive home was punctuated by a twenty five minute hold-up in Seligny.

For the first ten minutes or so all we had no hint of it's cause...

Then a crowd started to form...


The Gendarme considered sending for officers trained in crowd control....

And then the event itself...


or a more technically accurate picture...

along with the requisite "spares"..

And it was all over!

My daughter made three observations...

1) There were no signs to warn of the impending hold-up
2) The policeman would have been lynched in England for such a hold-up
3) Why did the "crowd" gather on such a foul day?

Answers to the above..
1) Road signs in general leave a lot to be desired in rural areas, so why bother with temporary ones?
2) Probably!
3) Look around.....You're in rural France on a wet afternoon. What else do you do?

This pace of life is so very pleasant!


2 comments:

Tim said...

You should have known....
it is "THE TOURangelle"...
adverts have been in all the papers for weeks and the route map was published last week...
it started in St Maure de TOURaine....
and went down hill and up dale all over the shop...
'twixt thee and us!!
Sorry you had such a foul day for the broc!! Just so's you know....
it is still raining...
so far 6mm!!
Apart from ruining what is normally a nice w/e...
at least it has saved some watering!

Tim said...

OH... and there probably was a notice about the roadblock.....
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outside Seligny Mairie...
on a bit of A5 in 3 point type!!
It would have been under that general heading....
ARRETE.