Special: 2 days for the price of 1

DATELINE, Friday, October 13. In Vaison.

If you think Thursday's blog was boring, be grateful I'm sparing you all but a brief summary of Friday:

1. Usual oatmeal breakfast.

2. OK lunch at usual brasserie on Vaison's place. 

3.  Afternoon nap for yours truly. 

4. Short auto run in late afternoon to supermarket on edge of town to get a bottle of Campari, an aperitif we enjoy. Discovery: French school kids can be as rude as American ones, especially when buying after-school snacks. 

5. Highpoint: Friday night dinner at Mathieu's wine shop. A delicious risotto, with pear tart for dessert. Good meal, good price, accompanied by good Sancerre red wine.

6. Worked on blog, went to bed. Bye-bye Friday. Onward to...

DATELINE: Saturday, Oct.14, Vaison to Cairanne and back.

After breakfast we drove to the Théos park on the west side of Vaison. Walked two miles or more through woods and around the arrangement of boulders carved with poems that we discovered last year.

For lunch, back to Cairanne. This time, to the town center (unlike last week's visit to a different restaurant at the edge of town). Today's trouble finding Le Tourne Au Verre was because the address on their website, which our GPS went to, was actually their back door (on an alley with no sign). The main entrance faced the town's main drag with a big sign.

It was worth the trouble, though, for an excellent lunch and a reminder that we really like Cairanne's local wines, both red and rosé. Roz's pictures are available at link at your left (scroll to Day 11). We bought a bottle of Cairanne red as we left the restaurant.

We had skipped dessert because an interesting ice cream shop back in Vaison had reopened after an end-of-summer break. We had liked it last year, and were pleased again this time. The place was mobbed at 5:00PM, so we had to come back around 6:00. Looks like Léone will continue to prosper.

Once that tasty dessert wore off a bit, we relaxed at home with some fizzy wine and a splash from the bottle of Campari we had bought Friday. Spent most of the evening bringing this blog up to date.

These were two pleasant and relaxing days, just not very thrilling to share with you. Will try to pack a bit more excitement into tomorrow.