Good evening everyone,
It's 7 pm here, and time to catch up on today's happenings. It must be getting near the end of our holiday, as I realized this afternoon that I'd double-posted yesterday's doings on the blog. My apologies. I'll sort it out when we get home.
Last night and all day today the Mistral has been blowing....it's the strong Provencale wind that comes out of the North and can last 3 or more days.....strong enough to blow the ears off a donkey they say here. I would guess it's blowing 40-60 km. an hour, and has really cooled off the previously warm fall temperatures we've been enjoying for the past 10 days. Today it really felt like fall, and we suspect that yesterday's grape harvesting in Cucuron was motivated by the growers' knowledge that the Mistral was expected. The leaves were flying wherever we've been today.
We lazed around in the morning, and around noon drove up to Roussillon, where our GM friend Holly Cheney stays when she's in Provence. It was a clear sunny day in Roussillon, and the red ocher colours of the houses there were brilliant. It is a beautiful little village, with many art galleries and restaurants catering to tourists. Several were still open even though tourist season has passed. We enjoyed a crepe and espresso (even though the waiter wasn't very pleased that we weren't having a full lunch!) and looked for some Provencale linens, to no avail. Again, just leftovers from summer were available for purchase (good sales) but nothing that worked for me. We did find a lovely shop that sold several local foodstuffs though, including some macaroons and Herbes de Provence. Then we drove down to Apt for our usual McDonald's Wifi fix.
Tomorrow we'll revisit a couple of places we've been taken with, and hope to find a few items we haven't yet purchased for souvenirs.
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