Souvigny ..

.. got a big write up from our host of the previous night and he was right. First of all he recommended an epicerie that baked baguettes stuffed with Bleu d'Auvergne, the local blue cheese. A good recommendation and one we enjoyed all too quickly.
Secondly he advised a walk around and it proved to be a really pretty small town.
The early morning light made it hard to take many decent images but this one worked out well to my eyes. The middle shop in the row is an Rouennerie (enlarge the image and the word appears) which is a shop that sells a particular type of material made, obviously enough, in Rouen.
The whole town had that soft Cotswold feel with its golden limestone buildings and there was a really relaxed sleepy feel to the place. A place to come back to.
Leave however we had to do and started on the journey north. Cutting underneath Paris took us to Calais early enough to catch the ferry before the one we had booked and so we arrived at Cheltenham at a sensible 9:30 pm. Long day in the car though.