Rainy day activities

It's not that it's raining, but it's cold and windy. As you know by now, our 'go to' on a rainy day is the Tram to the Ikea, Darty and Decathlon mall. It's a great way to put in a day and explore the sales, even though we don't buy anything.....at least nothing that we need ;-) So yesterday was another cold day. I suggested a couple of things and Les suggested a bike ride. I grimaced and reminded him of the wind and how unpleasant I thought it would be. So then I looked at the Midi Libre and remembered that the Sud de France Open Tennis was on, so we caught the Tram, which fortunately goes from our front door directly to the very modern and warm venue. First up was a doubles match: NZ vs UK. Very interesting and exciting, but only about 150 people in a place that would hold over 7,000. Mind you, this was the first game and was at noon. Next up at 2 was Belgium vs. Finland singles. It was great and so much faster. And then at 4:30, France vs Germany. By this time, people had left work early, kids were out of school and there were perhaps 1500+ people watching and I daresay all of them were French, as anytime the German made an error to give up a point, the whold crowd cheered. I felt badly for the poor German guy........but he did win.

So, by 7pm the next singles game was about to begin and Les and I had square bums, and had survived on our morning croissant, a crêpe and an ice cream bar, so we decided to head out and catch some of the people at the pub night in town. The first Thursday of the month, the BCA (British Commonwealth Assn, we think) meets at a pub. Every time we've gone, we've met a few more faces as people come back to their homes in Montpellier or return from holiday. One woman announced that she is selling her house and it has 3 or 4 apts in it.....3 floors on a 1,000 sq. ft floorplate. Anyone interested???

By the time we got home, I was more than ready to heat up the leek quiche and settle for a book. And this morning, the sun was shining and the boulangerie had received a new load of seasoned wood for their ovens, so we had warm croissants, to go with our jam from the market and our vitamins......