Apr
26
A (Touring) Week in Provence (7)
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As Serge the painter made the finishing touches to Maison Olive’s kitchen, EasyJet was touching down at Marseilles airport bearing the Major-General Harvey and his entourage, Carolyn and Robert.
This week we’ve been touring with the Harveys. We kicked off with a visit to Saint-Didier to show Robert the Jardintrein - an amazing 53 model trains running through a well-kept and sculptured garden. Alas, EDF (French electricity) had decided to pull the plug and to the owner’s chagrin, refused to tell him when it would be re-connected. We spent the time helping him with a petition for EDF, and looking at stationery trains.
On to Gordes and Carolyn’s credit card started to warm up.
A visit to the Asparagus farm was a highlight for all with Robert and Caro travelling with Jean-Pierre in his Citroen de chevaux (so named due to the two little silver horses on the bonnet).
Buying fresh asparagus is a serious business -
A visit to Louramin meant that the credit card really started to click into top gear. Here’s the MG bemused and trying to be patient outside a store not quite believing the purchases -
On the construction front. Jose and his compadres have been busy enjoying the glorious spring weather and the pool house has reached maximum wall height. This was achieved by Friday lunchtime - guess who didn’t work on Friday afternoon!
Two wonderful characters have arrived to do the paving on the front steps and around the pool. We can’t find out their names simply because they refuse to take the brown roll-ups out of their mouths long enough for us to understand their names. They appeared for a day, left, re-appeared sometime between 6pm and 9pm (we were enjoying some vin and manger at the Fox-Duncans) and have not re-appeared.
Needless to say, the job is half-finished.
Our entrance has started with Jean-Pierre’s wall in the middle completed and an old Roman Sarcopage lifted on to it by a benevolent delivery crane.
Saturday night was a night out at a local Bistro in Maubec. The owner/chef is an accomplished jazz musician and the Harvey, Fox, Duncan and Burrow clan mixed with the locals for a feast and some great jazz.
The Harveys have moved off to Nice for a week, the spring weather has broken with some welcome rain for the garden (Simon nearly had to start repairing the irrigation system) and we’re taking a breather.
Au bientot!
Lovonne and Simon
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