Every spring, the Abbaye de Fontfroid outside of Narbonne holds a plant sale. Beautiful stuff. Every vendor brings quality goodies for your garden. And that's not to mention the woodworkers, metal smiths, jewelers, tool makers, and a host of others vying for your discretionary spending euros. It was not the most pleasant of spring days on 30 April this year. Cool and breezy with not much sun. But there was plenty of eye candy. And Cathey found two fine pink rose bushes to buy for the terrace. Here are some plant pics with some pics taken previously of the Abbaye mixed in. Enjoy.
Ten sits just off the market square in Uzes, one of the prettiest villages in southern France. The newly renovated space is airy and comfortable with tables of sufficient size and sufficiently spaced to provide for a pleasant dining experience. Service was cheerful, fully bilingual, and attentive without being overbearing. The food presented well to both eye and tongue. And the rate of approximately 30 € per person for a party of five included starters, mains, a dessert or two, two bottles of local wine, and coffees at the finish. Reasonable if not cheap eats. So why am I hesitant to give an unqualified thumbs up? It took me a while to figure it out. Uzes is a quintessentially French village in a quintessentially French region of southern France. There are those who will say that the Languedoc is just as beautiful but less crowded and less expensive than its eastern neighbors. I know. I'm one of those people. But the fact remains that for many people, villages like Uzes are t
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