Wednesday 17th August Wednesday and Saturday are the market days in Uzes with the Wednesday one being all about food. People are everywhere and a lot of the people have the wheelie baskets that our mother’s had when we were young. They fill them up and no plastic bags. There are musicians on all of the corners and the ones near our apartment played nonstop all morning selling their cds and accepting coins from the crowds that either gathered round or like us w...

Tuesday 16th August We got up early as we had to catch the 8.20am bud to Avignon. Paul had told us how much he enjoyed Avignon and that it was not to be missed. You can’t sleep in anyway as the bells of the churches start chiming at 7.00am. It wouldn’t be so bad if they all did go off at 7.00 but there is this progression of chimes that last all of five or six minutes. Fruit, yogurt and the local “Fruit and Fibre” – it’s the hardest cornflakes that ...

Monday 15th August We decided to get up early – 7.30am, and go and get cereals, fruit, yogurt and the likes for our stay here because soon after we got here yesterday the supermarket closed for the day. The sign on the door told us that it should have been open at 7.30am but not so. For heavens sake it’s 8.15am and even French time in Uzes can’t be that late! So instead it was coffee and a shared pastry at the local boulangerie. Not what we are trying to...

Sunday 14 August We left Lyon today and headed for Uzes which is in the Languedoc area about 2 ½ hours south west of Lyon. We set off around 9.15am to find the A7 motorway and found that was not as easy as we had anticipated. We had marked on our map the direction we needed to take but when we came to turn left, the road just wasn’t there. Lyon is a maze of tunnels and roadworks (like every other city in France we have been to) and it also has a system of ...

Saturday 13th August We have just got back to the apartment, 3.35pm, after being out all day. It is so hot we couldn’t stand it any longer. We rang Stu this morning to see if he could help Jan top up her phone as it was all in French and she couldn’t work it out. It was nice to talk to him and hear the children in the background. He sorted it out and sent Jan a link which she logged into and did what she had to do. For breakfast, we had coffee and crois...