… BECAUSE IN THE AUTUMN OF 2021 the month of October was for us, a month of blue skies… often horizon to horizon. After the wettest day in years, on the fourth of the month that was, we saw no further rain. There was about 20 minutes of rain before dawn one morning but that was just to wash down the haze to give us an even more brilliant azure. We noted it particularly when sipping our restoratives at the café in Rasteau square, but also when tramping through the Alpilles, when filtering back home above the Gorges de la Nesque, when down at Saumane-de-Vaucluse (where the young de Sade was brought up — so he might have spotted it too on occasion). Almost everywhere we went in fact. It gave us a lot of (here it comes, grit your teeth) blue sky thinking! (…… and relax…).
Of course, if we'd had any visitors hoping for similar, you know – a week or so with the Melling & Smith partnership in Provence – well it would have been quite another story. But we weren't hosting this time round so Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur came good, to finish the summer season on a blue note! A day or so after we left? That's right, it got started on the winter gloom. Stick with this blog and all your days will be fair weather! Er… unlikely.
