Bonjour de la France!
Spelling may be odd as Fr keyboard very different....takes a while to get used to it.
We've ended up in a fabulous villa in Carqueiranne and are not missing our little apartment in the port at all even though we don't have a view. We do have a huge place with four bedrooms up, gigantic bathroom with soaker tub for two, place for candles, wine, etc and big walk in shower...all very unusual in our experience in France. Separate kitchen, big living room with fireplace and supply of olive wood, dining room....all on a protected southern exposure and glass doors everywhere...fabulous sun all day.
We look out on a large private garden with a private pool, palm trees, orange tree, olive tree, mimosa and loads of other bushes and plants...will be interesting to see what blooms. Our landlords lived here with their two children but now have a hobby vinyard and continue to teach full time. They left us a bottle of rose and red...rose very special...tastes very much of the earth (they sell their grapes to a coop that makes a cotes de Provence appellation controle)
It's just great being back in this lovely little village and just about the first thing we did was have a huge bucket of mussels and frites sitting outside in a restaurant on the port. Have been having wonderful cheeses, wines, various pastis you can't get in Victoria (we're making a collecttion for you to taste, Don)
Went to a flea market yesterday and bought boules so we can play petanque. Also got some more pastis paraphenalia
We have a cellphone so please call (remember we're 8 hours ahead)
001 33 663 434 810
Address is c\o
Pratch
4 les Mas d'Audrey
83320 Carqueiranne
France
I would love to get some mail!
