Just a preview of the day...our max/min thermometer on the terrace this morning at 8.30 reads as you can see. The giddy heights of 10.6 were what it was at when we reset it in the evening.
Forecast is for 9 degrees at midday, wow.
Not sure what we will venture to do today. It’s bright so we will go somewhere. Thank goodness I brought scarf and gloves!
Later that same day...Well we braved the icy blasts and headed for the canal at Vacqueyras. The air has that strange smoky effect as if it’s foggy but it isn’t. Most weird. Anyway we discovered a whole new stretch of the canal between Vacqueyras and Beaumes. About four miles there and back. Some of it sheltered, the rest open to the howling gale.
But the dry canes along the banks made a fabulous clattering rattling noise. Lots of stout purple orchids and occasional clumps of dark violets but it isn’t proper spring yet despite the date.
We passed through the backs of domaines and caught glimpses of well tended olive groves and vines. And in one there was what looked like a carriage from Le Petit Train.
