PROVENCE IN JUNE

We are back in the Var at our wonderful house hidden in the hills outside the small village of St-Antonin-du-Var. From Heathrow airport where we ran into the photographer Nicky Taylor a new a and rising star to Nice where we were met by friends and then dinner at our house an hour and a half later we were sitting down to my favourite smoked salmon washed down with a glass of our delicious  local wine.

The garden is a joy.  Large and a mixture of high maintenance formal clipped box and hedges and wild exuberant oleanders, pencil thin cypress that smell so wonderful and the contorted evergreen oaks that cover the local hills. 

The village restaurant has changed hands and is now apparently good though we haven't yet been, you can always get a great pizza 3 days a week....

For cooking at home we have Danielle who runs a good bakery and the village shop. In the summer there is a small cafe outside the bakery

more soon..................

BLUES SKIES OF PROVENCE

Are the skies always blue, they have been the deepest blue almost every day for the last month, which makes the grey skies of London less inviting. Except that things are starting to get busy in the shop and there comes a time when blue skies must give way to furniture, tapestries, and paintings.

The very good news is that we are no longer selling our wonderful house

We are however renting it and details can be seen on villalesvignes.com

It sleeps six, three bedrooms and three bathrooms, sitting in an hectare of private gardens it is really the most wonderful place to relax. It is quiet the views are heaven and you are surrounded by the most wonderful countryside. Good weather most of the time, great markets for food through out the year and many good restaurants. 

very early in the morning the sun slants through lighting our terrace.........

blue skies.............

more blue.....

our local grapes.......

hot climate blogging with the local wild life crawling over your screen, I still have harvest bugs in bedded in the screen of my laptop. It's back to antiques from now and we have great stock in the shop.