Some random photos from the journey
Tuesday…Beaumes de Venise market for fruit because tomorrow is Wednesday, usually Malaucène, but not this week as Le Tour is finishing there and obvs the market will not be in its path. Well we assume so but maybe it will just manage to get out of the way in time. Best not to risk it!
So an earlyish start - not quite as early as our neighbours, seen striding out with Nordic walking poles and serious boots! All fine until we hit Vaqueyras where the traffic stopped and started in a long queue. Men being creative with concrete at the big roundabout. We resolved to return unto our own village Another Way.
Anyway Beaumes was reached, temperature as yet bearable under grey clouds, croissants bought and coffee partaken in the Bar du Siècle among the stalls of produce. I bought a skirt…had really wanted some lightweight trousers and t shirt but you take what you can! Then vast quantities of fruit, and some prawns for lunch.
The swimming pool is closed again this year which is a pity.
The aforementioned alternative route home to avoid the roadworks was interesting if a bit longer than anticipated. It took us down roads hitherto untrammelled through domaines with names suggestive of struggle. Le sang des cailloux, la ferme sans regret to name but two.
And we burst out of the reeds and vines at Blood Donor Roundabout outside Jonquières. So called by us because it sports a huge red sculpture of the French blood donor organisation - a stylised tubular heart and artery. So famous I found a picture on Google!
Once more on familiar roads we sped through Violès and home via the old railway track. It is now reaching 30 on the terrace and very muggy under the blanket of cloud.
On the admin front I’m foolishly trying to create an espace client with the tax authorities! Must be mad. I thought all was going well until today I received a communication inviting me to log in under the name Mary Smith with a **** partial numéro fiscal I can’t find the rest of anywhere. Nowhere have I filled in a form or application under this name so why do they conjure it up! They even had my passport as proof of ID. Oh and of course I gave them my UK mobile number and that has been rejected because it has too many chiffres. You can see where this is going. It won’t end well.🤗
Stop Press! I have an ID and can log in. Still as Smith but better than nothing..
