Gigean Hike

This afternoon, we went on a hike with a new group! These diverse randonneurs* live in Sète now, but come from Sweden, Denmark, Venezuela, and California (that's us). We spoke French, English, and Spanish, talked about Italian and Portuguese, and heard a few others :-).

Twelve of us met in Sète and carpooled to the Abbaye Saint-Félix-de-Montceau, an abbey from the 11th-13th centuries.

We hiked uphill from there, and looked back

You can just see the mussel beds in the Étang in the distance

We stopped for a snack

And ogled the views

Sète

Frontignan

And back again to the abbey

We stopped for hot drinks and king cake :-)

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*Those who faire la randonnée, or day-hike

The Day the Fog Split

We had an interesting phenomenon this afternoon! As we looked out over the étang, we saw a fog bank rolling in. Then, just before it hit the shore, it split! Some rolled South, most rolled North, and we were left with our lovely sunshine!

We joked about having a wind-god on our roof, blowing a divot for us :-)

Sickies Chez Nous

What have we been up to? NOTHING! We've been sick at our house - just colds, nothing too serious, but certainly unpleasant, and definitely kept us from doing *anything!*

Traipsing all over Montpellier for my administrative tasks having to do with staying legal here meant that I was out in mostly miserable weather, waiting on transportation or walking to an office. A week ago Thursday, I felt well enough to get out for some much-needed supplies, but then Friday's appointment brought a relapse.

I stayed inside as much  as possible after that. Fortunately, Rick was feeling better enough that he could go out for some important food items. Finally, after nearly a week of keeping out of the weather and slurping hot toddies, the sick-storm broke! Yesterday was oh, so warm and mild, and so we stocked up on more groceries (scotch doesn't last forever, you know).

Then today - ahhhh, today - we *strolled* to the beach in the sun, shedding layers as we went. What a glorious day!

I'm glad we enjoyed it, because - you guessed it - rain is forecast for the next 4 days!

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Note: I had an amazing picture to share here, but Google Blogger has a new bug (gasp) that doesn't allow adding pictures. I will probably blog quite a bit less until (1) it's fixed, or (2) I finally switch hosts...