Mixed Bag

Thankfully, over night, the surf died down a bit (but it’s still very choppy out there and the wind remains high). The weather was a real mixed bag today. It started off with a glorious sunrise coming up over Italy, but by about noon it was overcast over the shore (but clear out at sea – a strange phenomena I have noticed happens here), and by 1 pm it was RAINING (GASP!). The rest of the day was full of intermittent showers and grey, while the sun shone like crazy over the sea. As I write even now (7pm), there is thunder and the odd sprinkles on land, while looking due south (towards Africa!) the sky is clear and blue.

This weather sort of put the kibosh on doing much outdoors, so I set into reading my novel – “The Bourne Objective,” while Paul enjoyed the numerous real estate magazines that we pick up while we’re out, along with doing some of his puzzle books and getting into his new novel, “The Bride of New France” (or some title like that).

Today, I must confess that we delved into the pastry foray… we had 2 croissants each and I, of course, succumbed to the delight of my favourite dessert after supper, Tart Tropizienne (a brioche based cake sandwiched together by a THICK layer of pastry cream that has been lightened by the addition of whipped cream). It’s  truly one of the finest desserts you can have and very difficult to find outside of Provence/the Riviera.

I made a mistake in yesterday’s report – the brocante is not on Thursdays, but Fridays. So we have that to look forward to – but even more exciting – it’s my Birthday Lunch to be held at the Mirazur restaurant – the home of double Michelin Star holder Mauro Colagreco. I’ll try to discretely snap some pics of the food… and the view from the restaurant is exquisite. I’ll be raving about it tomorrow (I hope!).

As an aside – I have been a little alarmed by how long it takes to upload the photos to the blog – and I have been unable to upload videos. I since have discovered that I have been shooting videos in Hi Def (so they would take forever to load!) and my pics have been in a resolution format big enough to print 16 x 20”. So, although I do not have a video to share today, I have knocked down the size of the photos (today there is a combo of both) and will try to start posting videos soon.

Today was mixed weather and a high of 19C.

Today’s photos:

Top: Dog day at the Port De Garavan

2nd: The aftermath of a good croissant

3rd: Gourmands of France?

bottom: A Canadian Breed of Apple grown in France