Happy New Year to all!

We had a quiet New Year's Eve. After discovering my email had been hacked, I decided this needed some thinking as the hacker was very sophisticated........even to answering my emails as if it was me!! Apologies again to all those who were affected by this.

Anyway, we took a short drive, in the sun to Aigue-Mortes, the great walled port from which Saint Louis sailed to the Crusades. It's now a town that's 5km inland due to the muck of the advancing Rhône delta. We enjoyed going to the market and buying some cheeses and tapenade, but it was too cold and windy to climb the ramparts, so we've put that aside for another day.

Although the sky was blue and the sun was out, the temp was 4C and the wind was very cold. And that would be Saint Louis on top and Les leaning against the fountain. We returned to Montpellier for a hot lunch at our local restaurant, Le Salad "Rit.

We started dinner with shrimps in garlic, then our cheese and tapenade course, followed by a strawberry pastry from the bakery. All washed down with a bubbly from our local cave. And when we went in on the 30th to buy the bubbly, this is what we saw. Not an uncommon sight for the "fill your own" is only .95€ per litre for very drinkable wine.

Best of health and happiness for 2015!