Mornings are becoming a bit of a routing – albeit a very pleasant one. Cloudless skies, breakfast by the pool etc etc. The one radical difference was to pop into the local village boulangerie for croissant (actually the best ever).
Lunch and then venture out, so 3 small places in one afternoon. Abbaye de Senanque – very famous for its lavender …
… but not at this time of year.
Then Gordes – a small famous hilltop town.
Actually very small – scenic but detained us for less than an hour.
Then finally Fontaine de Vaucluse which is the source of the Sorgue river, although pretty dry at this time of year. A bit past its heyday in our view, but nicely distracting.
And a few things we learned today:
– although our French is passably moderate, it was nowhere near enough to get anything out of the guided tour in French around the Abbaye, so we scuttled out
– Provençal food is (so far) excellent wherever we go, and reasonably priced, despite the weakness of £. But wine is very expensive, which was a bit of a surprise.
– once you have Google Maps, the temptation to use it is very high, especially when a bit lost in a large town