So what was the discovery?

I bet that you are all on the edge of your seats wondering what amazing discovery Dame Didi and I discovered at 3am in the morning.

Had we found an extra bottle of wine that had been squirrelled away for 'emergencies?', no it blinking well wasn't. We normally sit on the terrace facing the 'southty,northty, easty, westy star ( that will be the North Star to everyone else) and we sometimes see the plough too, however having turned round and looked towards the back of the chateau; we saw that the sky was full of stars; yes we know that they are always there but had never seen them ( usually by the time we stumble in from the terrace we can't see anything!!); but with clear skies and zero light pollution, we were fully able to see the most amazing site ever. Then we spotted 3 stars in a row much brighter than any of the others and although a little squiffy were able to make out that it was Orions Belt as seen above.

Now we are tend to wake up around 3.30-5.00am to 'check ' that the stars are still there!!!!!!

This morning they weren't due to very heavy cloud :-(

Sadly neither of us can get a decent shot with our cameras but it really has been the most wonderful thing that I have seen.

Sadly today is the last day of the holiday and we are doing odd jobs and going to the beach for a quick paddle, before going back up to the chateau to pack ready for the flight back to the UK tomorrow.