Well today was interesting.
You may remember we were supposed to go to Soreze for their "vide grenier et brocante" (boot sale and antique faire), all the towns and villages usually have one or more a year and the whole town seems to have a stall or stalls laid out around the streets.
Soreze is a very pretty and interesting "Bastide" town (built in a circle). It is also a sort of big artists' colony.
so we drove the 45 mins or so to get there.
No sign of it.
Wifey checks on the internet, "look for yourself" she says.
I point out that today there is a "vide maison" Equivalent of a garage sale. One punter flogging their junk. with an address.
She then scoots around tinternet and finds ALL the "vides greniers" on today, her's has a red flag "annulé" Cancelled!
No matter, I am not bothered, we 've been to enough of them.
She can't stop apologising.
I tell her it really isn't a problem, we'd been outside a café supping a beer and a wine, so we set off to find a meal. We found a fascinating place that did what the French call "tapas", prolly nothing like eSpanish ones.
So we shared two "boards" one of cheeses and one of charcuterie. We then had two fabulous salads. They didn't mess about they came in big glass bowls, then sweets and coffees. all washed down with a demi-de-rouge. And a pleasant convo with a couple from Toulouse who told me something very interesting about Chopin. (Their little dachshund was called Chopin so.....)
We then had a wee toddle around the town, i took some pics on my mobile cellular phone,
Which I then managed to email to my laptop. GET ME!!!!!!
So I was able to muck around with them a bit in IPE.
So here are a few.
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