Just four more Carquieranne market days before we leave! It's such a pleasure to shop this way. The market gets larger as the season goes on....great to see all the old regulars and some new ones. This last time there was a fellow with kittens and puppies...big sign ANIMALS NOT FOR SALE but he was selling some key chains and stuff and getting a big crowd petting the animals. I took the picture I had taken of the fellow who sold us the rabbit and he and his wife were thrilled to get it and the message Don had written.
Looking at another picture we took our last night in Paris at a restaurant in Ile St. Louis. It's a good one of the four of us and also an Australian couple who got talking to us and jumped into the picture just like that's of course what anyone would do! It was their 29th anniversary. We're looking forward to celebrating our 3th anniversary here with dinner at this great local restaurant called Les Pins Penches (bent pines).
Jim's talk on Huxley's Love Letters went really well and we were very pleasantly surprised to be give a 60 Euro gift certificate for a book/Cd store...will be fun to pick stuff out.
Red poppies are blooming everywhere...have to include them in some painting.
Books I've been reading:
Deception Point by Dan Brown...as usual a great plot...he really does capture your interest. Kind of neat to see the Louvre after reading his Da Vinci Code.
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Takes place on the French Riviera and they spent quite a bit of time here. Seemed familiar and must have read it in university a million years ago. Didn't finish it...seemed dated and overwritten although some amazingly good poetic passages in amongst the dross...no Great Gatsby.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley...you may be amazed I hadnt read it before! Great stuff and very funny and so timely...hard to believe it was written in 1932. Jim is loving teaching it here.
Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard. One of my Christmas books...very amusing...interesting writer...I'll have to find more of her word. Married to Kingsley Amis apparently.
