After hiding out yesterday in the villa to reset our bio clocks, we headed today for Cadenet’s open air market. Provence seems to have one just about every day of the week. We had sunshine and precipitation during the 15-minute drive, but it wasn’t rain; it wasn’t even drizzle….more of a drip, just a few drops here and there constantly and enough to create a faint rainbow in the west.
After one pass down the market street and up again, we headed for Pertuis and another shopping stop at Hyper U. (The name almost sounds like pidgin: “What! Hyper you?”) Lennie passed over the beef and settled on chicken for tonight’s dinner. La Jassine’s owners asked us to pick up a microwave to replace one that recently quit for good.
After lunch back at the villa, we took our first walk toward Lourmarin, which is maybe 4K down a gravel lane that turns into a hiking path past a vineyard and through the forest. We only went about a third of the way and will wait to walk all the way until we pick up a pair of boots for Lennie.
What really strikes us about this little valley we’re in is that you can go a whole day without seeing another soul here in this neighborhood. We’ve glimpsed some movement across the way at the nearest neighbor’s place, and someone walked past the orchard this morning, but if we hadn’t been looking out the window at those two moments, we would have seen no one else all day. This welcome contrast couldn’t be more different than our daily routine in Honolulu, with street, freeway, air and ocean traffic a constant presence below our ridge home.
Relaxation is the major "activity" of each day at La Jassine, and we love it.
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