Another 100 degree plus day. The heatwave forecast to run well into next week. The pace of life in deepest France Profonde , slow at the best of times, shifts down a gear.
The cheesemongers stall at the market unusually quiet. In fact the whole market is quiet. Seven thirty am and it's already touching eighty. Most of the beer and absinthe set have moved inside the cafe leaving the outside seats to tourists and shoppers. The waitress bizzarely tells me that " it's not a day for horse riding " . Angus agrees.
I would have given those cheesemongers some business, sans aucun doute.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail
Sorry about your heat. I agree, not a day to be trotting about on horseback.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the decorated marquee structure has something to do with a horse riding dressage competition??
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted.
Stay cool.
Wasn't the Mayor given water to store for a 'heat emergency' a couple of months ago? I think your weather may qualify as one and my guess about the tables is that they are setting up to ceremoniously give it out. ???
ReplyDeleteGreat photos and here too there has been little horse riding. But soon fall will come and I'll be up and out on the trails. Be sure to post lots of pics of France in the fall allright?
ReplyDeletehow very strange...the horrid heat monster moves on...
ReplyDeletewe started having triple digit temperatures in the early part of june here.
it continued day after sweltering day for over 59 days straight with fairly high humidity.
i thought it would never end. but this week our nights have been in the 60's! heaven!
and the days lately have only been in the upper 80's and 90's. now you are having our horrible
heat. is that normal for you there??? i don't know what's going on. but it's seems weird.
ah well. life on this planet!
Maybe yesterday's elf is setting up shop.
ReplyDeleteI hope that cheese isn't melting in the heat. Very curious to know what the white and red table is all about.
ReplyDeleteCarefully watching dogs and horses here; the heat has moved on but last week, I plopped an old Beagle into a bath after I saw him standing funny in the yard. Didn't take his temp; just cooled him down - he did fine.
ReplyDeleteStay cool - the cheese looks delicious.
CHEESE...we would have been there!
ReplyDeleteXXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Bella
Another frosty morning here.
23 Euro for a kg of cheese!!! Are they feeding those cows gold flavored grass over there? :)
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling we'll be hearing tales of some wild partying going on soon. I hope you and 'the font' are able to beat the heat!
ReplyDeleteHopeful that your 100 degree days are soon a thing of the past. :)
ReplyDeleteB&L,
Janelle, Maggie Mae and Max
That's just not right, over 100 degrees almost at the end of August. I agree with the waitress, not a day to ride! But I will certainly take a few 100 grams of those cheeses, s'il vous plait!
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