I've just returned from a week long trip to the South of France, the cities of Marseille and Avignon. I went with my friend B who was visiting from the US. It was a fun week of sitting in cafés sipping our café crèmes and people watching, walking and wandering, visiting museums, shopping, and enjoying the SUN!!!!!
For those of you not in Paris, the summer here has been terrible. Dreary, gloomy, rainy, drizzly, cloudy, gray, chilly, miserable. London + Seattle x 1000. Paris is a much grayer and rainier city than most people realize, but even so, this summer has been ridiculous. Temperatures have rarely gone into the 70's or higher. Even when in the 60's, if it's always a rainy drizzly day, it seems cooler. People are walking around in jackets, turtlenecks, sweatshirts (well, the tourists in sweatshirts). It's AUGUST, people! Nothing sadder than a turtleneck in August.
I just checked the forecast for this week. Gee, a surprise, rain and clouds the rest of the week. But sunny and in the 70's this weekend! Pleeeeeeeeeze be sunny this weekend!
So the sun this past week in Provence was very much welcome! Every day, 80's, sunny, few or no clouds. And not even humid! Unlike how Paris or NY would be. I never thought of myself as a sun worshiper, but now I crave it. Even a heatwave would do, bring on the sun!
