Provence Tayl's

Well what a week it has been since I last blogged. Last week saw some very turbulant weather in Provence, one minute we were bathed in sunshine and temperatures in the mid 80's , the next rain like you have rarely seen, torrential!

Thankfully the sunshine returned for my birthday, Friday 8th. We went out for a superb meal sitting outside under the plane trees enjoying a pleasant balmy evening.

On Saturday we dealt with the formalities of closing the sale on our village house, which involves the purchasers, us and the one Notaire reading out the contract, we all sign and away we go - very simple and uncomplecated. Of course we had to go have a drink to celebrate so we visited the market in Apt which was heaving with tourists!




In the evening we went out with 4 friends for dinner and once again dined 'al fresco'.This rather stressful weekend continued on Sunday when we went with 3 other couples for a picnic in the park with live jazz.I grant you the music was not quite the Isle of Wight festival stuff but it was a very pleasnt way to pass an afternoon and complete a lovely weekend.


And today I have finally been able to photograph the villa almost finished, the rendering is complete, the shutters are done, just one or two more little jobs (I think we have decided to paint the windows in the Autumn)to finish off leaving us to concentrate on the new houses which fingers crossed will start in about 10 days.