Week Three - Tuesday

Tuesday 2nd July 2017

Hot still, 31 degrees by 10 am but slightly less humid.

We've decided our body clocks have retained their UK time settings.  We're up usually about 9am, we lunch around 2 to 2.30, our evening meal is usually about 8pm and we shower at 10 pm.

We were then, still a little sluggish when our Dutch neighbours told us they were off on their bikes, electrically aided I must add, to the weekly market at Cucuron.  Now we've come across one or two markets since we've been here but usually around lunchtime, and just as they are packing up, so we hastened ourselves and set off, in the 31 degrees heat, to the market.

The market takes place around the dramatic water feature in the centre of Cucuron. The bassin is spring-fed and about as big as an Olympic swimming pool, and with huge 200-year-old plane trees all around the square, they provide much needed shade for all.

It was of course a typical French market with great arrays of fresh fruit, vegetables, some of which we'd never seen before, plenty of meat, fresh and dried and of course, cheese. Many items too referring to the lavender trade which just added to the nasal assault you feel as soon as you step out of the car.

Back home by around 2pm, lunch, then our current favourite pass-time, sitting, reading and dozing.