Our morning outing consisted of several small boats and a few quads, introducing rowers to sculling, as our host boat club had several sets of training sculls and fat doubles. We were lucky the sun was shining in the morning, but as soon as we got the boats back in, the rain started pouring down.
We were all glad that we had the afternoon off, and we set off to visit the castle of Bonaguil, 15th century fortress built over a cave on a hill. We all stood in a giant bread oven, Georgie took a fancy to medieval toilets, and we had several interesting attempts at group photos with cameras set on a timer, before moving on. Our next stop was a local vineyard, where we learned how to taste and appreciate the flavours of wine, thanks to Pauline’s mad translating skills. After tasting four different wines, some of us feeling the effects already, although we only had a couple of sips of each wine, we set off back to the boathouse, where Mark cooked us all some delicious Nile perch.