Provence Tayl's

The last few days have been like riding a roller coaster! We had been so looking forward after 18 months, to signing for the land Saturday afternoon. Then on Thursday we had a call to say there was a problem with the drainage agreement. So we saw the Notaire Friday, who clarified matters and we were all set for Saturday again. I had the cheques from the bank and we were ready to start work on site Monday. In anticipation we were going out with friends for supper Friday night to celebrate and taking our architect and his wife out Saturday night as a thank you.

Well, before we had even arrived home we had a call to say the sellers Notaire was not ready and wanted to delay the signing until Tuesday week at 18.00. It was not negotiable so as you can imagine we felt pretty fed up!

On top of this our village Boulangerie, which has a fantastic reputation let alone the best bread and cakes in the area has changed hands due to the proprietors eating all the croissants and getting ill!




most disappointing - to cap it all it has been raining over the last couple of days - we would appreciate having our weather back blighty! still we need it I guess;

Today though has been a lovely day so we decided to comfort ourselves by going to the wine, cheese and bread festival in Menerbes, a very pretty village near us, surrounded by vineyards.

This is the view from the village across the valley with Mont Ventoux in the distance.


For 5€ you receive 2 wine glasses to keep and then go from stall to stall tasting wine and cheese, the rice thing abote it is that u can drinc as much as you vant!!



And to finish the day, the pool is almost clean, not bad 19 degrees already and the decking is finished. Tomorrow the re rendering starts - Joy!