Yesterday we did a driving trip to his lovely town, just south of Avignon thanks to Charlie who did the driving and commentary. It was a circular drive and was to include Glanum, an archaeological site http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glanum , but we skipped that as it was cold and the Mistral was a blowin'. It would have taken easily over an hour to wander around the site and the winds were up to and over 40km. As they say, it's never bad weather, it's just inappropriate clothing and we were dressed to go out for lunch and Jeanette did not have a hat. So, another time.
We did walk around the town, which is largely closed up for lack of tourists but a few places open. First stop, Joël Durand, Chocolatier.....oh my.....and this is just a sample of what was in the shop.
I thought it a good way to learn my French alphabet ;-)
And then lunch........
I had the Aïoli du Bistrot......lovely cod with veggies and endless aïoli. Literally endless as I witnessed a few tables over when the customer asked for another pot of it.
Les had the lamb and yes, it tasted as good as it looked.
We rounded of the day, back in Montpellier attending and competing in Book Quiz !V, put on by the Friends of the Anglophone Library of Montpellier (FOAL) and the American Women's Group of Languedoc-Roussillon (AWG). There were about 50 people there, divided into three teams. Each question in the quiz was annouced and also displayed on a screen and consisted of a theme, or a sentence and who wrote it and what's the title. There was a timing bell and two scorekeepers. Great fun. And talk about feeling stupid! Trying to pull titles out of our brains in a few seconds really put everyone to the test and it created lots of laughter.
We ended the evening with a Skype call from Noëlle and got to play and laugh with our grandson for a bit.
Woke up this morning to sun and -1C. It's now 9:30am and the temp is up to 1C, apparently going up to 12C. We'll have another coffee before walking to the market.
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