A Day To Remember - Niort ('The DSM')
Have you ever had ‘one of those days’? A day you can look back on and laugh, but at the time the laughter was in short supply? Steve and Anna Shaw had such a day. A day they would remember for a very long time... We were driving to Niort. On a previous trip to the capital of our region, my wife, Anna had lost her purse, including cash, bank cards and family photos. Two weeks later when we were back in ‘Blighty’ a strange package arrived in the post. It was the aforementioned purse, which the owner of a book shop in Niort had found and forwarded. Our mission today was to find this saintly man, shake his hand, thrust a bottle of wine at him and purchase several books from his establishment. I was ready to park down by the river, but instead Anna guided me to a subterranean car park in the town centre. As we were about to descend into the bowels of the earth we heard a thump from above. After a quizzical glance at each other we thought no more about it. Down the ramp we went, closely foll...