A leisurely Sunday

Read about the first part of the weekend here.

Sunday morning in Vichy, we went out again after breakfast. We went through the same park, and this time we sat down for a while. I took some photos of the scenery this time...

sitting down

what they were looking at, in case you were wondering

I asked them to look over here for a photo (the girls whose faces were hidden pronounced themselves very satisfied with the photo, so I didn't take another one)

And then the guys decided to take their turn when the children left.

Julien

Camille

Julien and Alexis (actually Alexis was the first one to go on it, but I didn't get out my camera quickly enough to get a photo)

After that we went to the town centre.

a passageway (argh, the name of the passageway is lost in the sunlight :( )

a church

We didn't exactly plan to go to the town centre in the beginning...we went because Julien insisted, saying that if we were in a town, we had to go and see the town centre! I must say that I kinda agree...even though I didn't find it quite that important. :P But the centre was really pretty...so it was lucky we went!

some pedestrian street

a square we crossed going towards the town hall

the other side of the square

the rather "special" post office :P

I had fallen back (again) while taking photos, so they were waiting for me under the tree. Here I was approaching them, so they were turning around to continue...just as I was going to snap a photo of them all under the tree. Oh well...

the town hall

we stopped for a while on the steps

Camille's photo

I think it was after that that we went to buy the bread...or had we done it already? Anyway, on the way back, we passed a small marketplace where the sellers were just packing up their stuff...and Camille D decided to buy some strawberries. While he was looking at the strawberries, I discreetly snapped a couple of photos of the flowers at the stall beside it (beside the strawberry stall, that is) (and discreetly because I wasn't sure whether the seller would be happy with me taking photos :P )

the roses are gorgeous :)

nice flower arrangement

Camille with his strawberries
He bought four trays, which makes 1kg in all! (for the seven of us)

When we got back, it was barbecue time again, with pork chops this time.

This time Julien's in charge of the grill.

After that I think we played some more UNO while waiting for the time to pass...Marion and Yi were taking the train at about 3:30pm so that they could be back in Lyon in time to watch the final World Cup match at 8:30pm. Since I wasn't going to watch the match, and Camille and Julien were leaving at 5pm and 6pm respectively, I decided to take the next train to Lyon at 6:30pm. (which would arrive at the Lyon train station at 8:30pm, too late to get home and watch the start of the match :P )

After sending the football fans off at the train station, we returned to Camille's house and played UNO again...until when we had to leave for the train station again to see Camille D off. This time Julien and I brought our bags along as well...no sense coming back when the two trains were an hour apart. Before leaving I managed to get a photo of Camille's magnificent cat (the only decent photo I got, even though I took others)

meow

At the train station we played UNO again after Camille D left, and again after Julien left. I guess that was our "pastime of the day" :P

playing UNO at the train station...the other people there probably thought us a bit crazy :P

All three of us left from the same platform (this one), so that made things a little simpler...we could practically play until the train arrived.

By the way, I kept losing at the end (actually I kept losing that weekend)...Julien who had just learned how to play that weekend beat me right before getting on his train (we were the last two). Oh well...better luck next time...I hope! :P