They don't just moan here!

 Yesterday we needed to go shopping but we had to wait-in first for a technician to come to service our water softener.  He'd finished just after lunch so we decided to go off to Cahors.  Bad move!  We knew that the farmers were protesting and blocking some of the local exits on the motorway ... however they had decided to block Cahor itself.

So, not only were they blocking roads with tractors, they were also dumping manure and erecting barricades of bales and tyres.  

We didn't appreciate the extent of the difficulties until we were in the non-moving traffic jam and it took us about an hour to get ourselves out and back on the road home ... empty-handed!

The revolutionary spirit is alive and well in France, they don't just moan.