Double dipping for Ragtag Daily Prompt: Sunny and FOWC with Fandango: Café
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Tag: Provence
Summers in Provence
From age 13 to age 18 I was packed off during summer to family friends living in our twinned town in Provence. Cavaillon is known as the capital of melons, and everywhere in Provence are fields of lavender. For me, these two scents – ripe melons and lavender blooms – conjure up innummerable memories.
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Common Scents
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I’m a Fan of Ancient Toilets
Inspired by Geriatrix’ toilet signs last week I consulted my archive and came up with these:
Arranged according to age:
A Roman toilet from around the 2nd century in a villa rustica near Höchst im Odenwald. The Windeck toilet with a long drop built around 1100 AD in Weinheim. The Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim is about 200 younger but features the same kind of jutty toilet. And the simple hole in a stone toilet in Oppède-le-vieux, also from the middle ages.
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Catch Me if You Can
Twenty years ago we were in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Our boys really really really wanted to see a Corsa camarguenca, a provençal bull fight where the bulls are not killed (just teased and pestered, I suppose).
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