It is hard to believe we'll be leaving this wonderful little village we've come to love so much on Saturday, then Nice for three days, then home.
We had a super meal Friday at this fabulous restaurant on an estate overlooking a great view of pines and ocean called Les Pins Penches. This was our anniversary celebration and what a perfect place to be. We had been there with the Curlings on a rainy day and that daywere seated in the solariam with the best view...and it was actually the non smoking section. Generally, if they even have them, you are relegated to the worst part of the restaurant. We all really enjoyed the meal and it was a good way to spend a rainy afternoon. This time it was a beautiful day and we were out on the terasse...better than perfect.
Then, Saturday, I started to develop some ghastly mouth and throat infection that was diagnosed as 'champignon' here...Jim thinks it might be called 'thrush' at home.
A reaction from the antibiotics I took a month ago. I hope no one has had the experience. I won't go into the gory details but I'm pretty much on a diet of water, milk, scrambled egges and vanilla ice cream...everything else feels like eating raser blades. Oh yes...supplemented by some nasty disinfectant mouth wash I have to take 4 times a day and some other medicine.
Now I would like to think my friends reading this would be crying crododile tears on hearing this but I suspect that most will be having a quiet little laugh and SOME will be splitting a gut with laughter...and I know who you are and I won't forget it...A.B., P.B. and D.C.!
I can see the humour of spending my last days in France like this....makes a better story than another boring week of la gourmandise but I do hope this will improve so that I can at least enjoy one last experience of that wonderful crusty bagette that no where in the world seems to be able to replicate.
I see Richard has got some more pictures up...Don and Elaine and Jim and I in front of Notre Dame and a couple of paintings. I've done 21 and have now packed up my studio. I think we're actually going to manage to fit everything in our suitcases.
