Houeillès

Today has been a  day where we have just chilled out in a most relaxing environment! The aire we are in has outstanding tree planting and maintenance, supporting passing travellers to use the facilities. 

We took an early walk around the village this morning - the most exertion undertaken all day!

The village of Houeillès appears to be a place where people pass through on their way north or south. 

At some stage in the past there was a thriving community here but now it appears to be one in decline. Two pubs are boarded up with a whole street of houses with the “Vendre” sign at their front gate. 

The village had an interesting old church - which most do - and some evidence of past interesting architecture with old timber framed houses and some classical merchant houses of a later period. 

Services to the village (postal, library etc) are very restricted in their times of opening. 

We spent a good part of the day sharing stories with a couple of lovely English folk from Bolton. Angela and Paul are on their way back from Spain where they had experienced heat wave conditions as well as unseasonal flooding over the past few weeks. It has been a most enjoyable day with them.