Tarascon Part I

For dinner the family had pasta with some kind of cut up pork pieces, they made me some fish patties and some un-porkified pasta. It was quite yummy. The day was over and tomorrow Auriane was able to go into school an hour late since her English teacher is out this week and that is her first period class.

I woke up early but decided to go back to sleep. I was awakened by the 7am church bells but stayed in bed until 7:30. I took a shower and headed downstairs. When I got downstairs and went to open the door to the living room, it was locked. I walked back upstairs, went through the den (good thing I did not lock it last night!) and then crept my way downstairs. I was not really quiet as it was dark, I was not used to the house layout and it is an old house so it creaked a lot. I was the first one up and made some tea and enjoyed a nectarine.

Apparently Auriane woke up her parents early with screams from a nightmare – either it woke me up and I did not realize what woke me up or I did not hear it…Either way everyone was getting up. I went with Alan to drop Auriane off at school and then he dropped me off in the school’s town, Tarascon. Today is Tuesday and the village is having a market, apparently it is the best market of the surrounding towns. I was told that in the center of town I would find the food market.



It was a very large and wonderful market. There were vendors selling everything under the moon (for those who want examples: sunglasses, carpet cleaner, watches, wallets, mattresses, shoes, clothes, etc) and then there was the food market. Two fish stands, three cheese stands and lots of vegetable and fruits stands later I was in heaven.

Anne told me that she had a 9:30 phone meeting and she would call me when she knew when she could come to pick me up. This of course made me feel like I had no idea how much time I had so I went to do big things first. I skipped buying any food and went looking for a map. I wound up at the Town Hall (did not know this at the time) and a very nice man gave me a map. He told me where the information center was, but he had just given me everything that I needed. We chatted for a bit (or tried to) and then I went to the castle.