Saturday, 27 June 2009, 11:00 PM

Today was checkout day from our cottage in Malevergne out in the country to an apartment in the city center of Sarlat. Daddy and Grandad took half of the bags to the apartment and left them in the breakfast room off the lobby; then they came back to the cottage. The owner came and reviewed the state of cottage with Grandad, then we were off to Sarlat.

The apartment included a space in a garage so we left the rest of our bags there and spent the next few hours looking around the city. It was Saturday, market day, so that meant that all the streets in the centre of the city were closed to cars and instead there were street vendors everywhere, selling fruit, meats, clothes, jewelry, and just about everything else.

We stopped for coffee (of course) in one of the Partissier - yummy!

Grandma took us to these bronze statues of geese which I had fun playing on. Note my new Hello Kitty hat - I needed it because it was very hot.

By about 2pm, our room was ready so we checked in. We are staying at La Villa des Consuls, a lovely set of apartments above the main street of Sarlat, Rue de la Republique. A wonderful apartment with a fabulous view.

We elected to have dinner on our patio since it was so nice sitting there. Grandad went out and bought some ham, some cheese, some smoked salmon, and some lovely French bread. We had quite the feast.

Grandad and Daddy were most pleased that the apartment also included Internet access in the form of WiFi, much faster than the GPRS service they were using in Malevergne via the USB dongle Grandad had. They especially liked that they could be on their computers out on the patio!

The apartment has 2 bedrooms so Grandad and Grandma were in one room and Daddy and I shared the other one. It's going to be a great apartment I think.

Once again, it was another late night - I didn't go to be until after 10. I'm really enjoying my time in France so far!