Damp Eclecticism

If you have been jealous about our weather here, you can stop. It rained today!

Never being ones to let a little rain dampen our spirits (we always bring brollies when we travel), we headed out into the rain to see what the heck was going on in town for the day.

Our lovely apartment is farther east along the coast than we have ever stayed before (which affords a very fine view of the old town), but that also means that when you head into town, it’s farther to go. A smart pair of guys, we have determined that because the whole area is a big bay, it is actually shorter if you walk along the lakeshore rather than up on the road, which affords you a lovely stroll through the marina and harbour.

We always like to check out the action at the market. The good news today was that Canadian lobsters were on sale for only 10E each (which is actually a better buy than you can get them at home) – or 3 for 25E. They’d be a perfect treat for Easter lunch tomorrow. I just can’t bring myself to “do the deed,” though, as enjoyable as they are, so enjoying the fact that they advertised them as Canadian (I didn’t check their passports) we moved along.

Luck was with us as we discovered one of our wholesalers of Provencal table cloths was open, and we pretty much had the place to ourselves. Paul found some really nice stuff and he’s putting an order together as we speak. A little farther along, we have a shop that we hit up for vintage French advertising posters that we like to bring home, have framed and put up for sale at Pariscope. They really didn’t have much for us today, but the owner assured us that more stock is coming in next week, so we’ll be back!

Tonight for supper I made my internationally acclaimed “pasta Mentonnaise” (my lemon-pepper pasta), and there was some good looking chicken breasts at the market, so I sautéd them and added them to the mix, too, for a little protein.

I was hoping with tomorrow being Easter that we’d get up and go to the Basillica and check out the bells and smells. Even as a non-Catholic I have to admit to being impressed with the pomp and circumstance. Oddly, Paul (the Catholic in this relationship) doesn’t seem to be all that bothered either way, so I don’t exactly know what the day will bring. We have tossed around the idea of a picnic for lunch, though, weather permitting.

So we had a damp but eclectic day here today.

Today’s weather was grey and rain with a high of 18C. It was really windy in the morning, but that all seems to have gone now. We needed a break from the sunshine anyway – meaning our skin needed a break form tanning.