Our next stop on the tour is St. Rémy de Provence, a cute little town. Julian observed that if Disney wanted to clone a French town for a theme park, this would be the one.
The town has several plazas and is encircled by a ring road. It deals heavily in the tourist and expat trade. Why else would you find stores selling tchotchkes with snarky slogans in English? It also has a preponderance of real estate agencies, along with one specializing in vineyards.
Last night we ate at a typical Provençal restaurant. Julian had the aïoli with seafood, while I had the mussels. This prompted another in our long series of shrimp-head puppet shows.
Me and my mussels. Julian’s aïoli is in the foreground.
A boy and his shrimp head puppet.
As we were walking around after dinner, we saw a pizza truck. Shades of the old Hot Truck from Cornell! I didn’t dare ask if they could do a Triple Sui.
A hot pizza truck in St. Rémy de Provence.
Wednesday is market day in St. Rémy. In other words, it’s tourist day. I think I heard more English than French spoken. As crowded as it was, everything was closed and the vendors were gone by 3 pm. This is a well-oiled machine. While we were roaming around, we saw this offering. Yes, that’s exactly what it looks like. It’s a pig stuffed with pork loin and other goodies.
Sorry, vegetarians. I had to get a picture of this.
As for our lunch, we bought some cheese, bread, sausage, spreadables, and raspberries.
Tomorrow we may take a road trip to a nearby medieval town.
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