Church Bells

I was warned that the church bells go off from 7am until 10pm. Apparently the church is nearby and I should not be scared in the morning. They did not give me a time to get up for breakfast and said that I should sleep in. I woke up early, went back to bed, woke up again and laid there for a while. I heard voices and then the bells went off. I my sweet time getting out of bed and getting ready. The shower…A+.

I headed downstairs and found Anne-Francoise and Alan eating breakfast. I enjoyed my staple breakfast of water and a croissant and we waited for Auriane. She came down and I sat with her while she ate. I gave her the cookbook that Vicki helped me find and Justin bought and brought over from the states. She seemed to like it and even said that the tomato recipe is common in the Provencal region.

Alan was going out for a walk through town as today was the one day a month that there is a flee market! I headed out with him while Auriane and Anne-Francoise showered. We stopped and said hello to his neighbor who was setting up for her garage sale in the street. I said hello and before we could continue our walk out came Auriane. She walked with us until the next neighbor. He was selling old shoes…lots of old, worn, weird looking shoes that were stuffed with newspaper. I badly wanted to take a picture of him sitting under the stone arch of his house entrance way, with his missing two front teeth smile, in the plastic lawn chair and newspaper filled boots and shoes, but decided it was not the polite thing to do. Alan was able to get away without buying anything and we continued on.

We made it to the center of town where there was the flee market. Auriane told me that it was not the towns people selling good but people come from other cities with their goods. It looked like people pulled a bunch of old stuff from their attics and were selling it; but what do I know?