It turned out that there were a couple problems wuith our nice room:
it had the remnants of previous tenants, including a naughty nighty
hidden behind the bathroom door and an alarm that set the TV off at
7:30.

This latter was an annoyance as it took me some minutes to figure
out how to turn of the ever-increasing-volumed alarm. We were quite
awake in due course, so we went down and had breakfast, which
turned out to be worthwhile.

Breakfast breads: baguette, country loaf, brioche, croissants, pain
au chocolat and other things I didn't pay any attention to. The
croissants were as they say to die for.

There were walnut cake and marzipan tart, both better than the
desserts offered with dinner. I had seconds of the marzipan and so
didn't have room for the chocolate croissant I'd picked up.

Apple and orange juices from a machine; coffee and chocolate likewise.

Yellow (unknown), white (young Cantal), and moldy cheeses.

Bacon and bangers in a chafing dish such as you might find in any hotel anywhere, to make the Americans feel at home; the former were curled up
and hard but still greasy and bad, the latter sort of ordinary.

Dried apricots, figs, and prunes, all good. Assorted fresh fruit, of
which I had a pretty decent kiwi.

Yogurt and salads.

Precut deli ham and Swiss.

Carve-it-yourself lomo, local dried salami-like sausage,
andouillette, and Bayonne ham on the bone. These were all excellent.
I've never seen andouillette on a breakfast buffet before so had a
couple slices of that. The ham was complete, so I cut myself a
couple fatty slices.

It was my kind of breakfast, and I had over half a pound of protein
food and tastes of other things. I had told Lilli that that was to
be the only meal before dinner, and she had said "I know," but I
smuggled her out that chocolate croissant in a napkin for emergency
provisions later.

We went back home and lolled about until 11, which according to my
calculations would get us to Roissypole at check-in time. Then
checkout and a final stroll around the rather lovely grounds, which
owing to our fecklessness we hadn't been able to enjoy the previous day.
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