Auction
On Saturday morning we breakfasted on the port and went to preview an auction. Rob was interested because some of the lots were vintage postcards. We did a lot of watching as we haven’t done this before; who was looking and what were they interested in? One man was going through the lots card by card, some lots contained hundreds of cards. I think he must have known what he was looking for.

I didn’t go to the auction in the afternoon but Rob did. He came back with some treasures and spent too much. We shall see about that. There were some newspaper cuttings between some of the cards; A little bit of local history as a bonus! Some cards were from Germany, but not too many and Rob thinks he will be able to sell them anyway. One card that we shall keep is a German Christmas post card sent on 1903. The address is just:

Monsieur X,
Lafond Near La Rochelle.

Lafond has quite a few houses built over a hundred years ago, it’s a good job the postman knew everyone.