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July 3, Monday 2001. Gordes, Provence.

Woke up late, first good sleep of the trip. Did I tell you about the cigale? Heard a real honker of a cicada and he/she evidently had turned up as our guest the night before. I woke up to a noise and hallucinated one of the goggles' eyepieces in the suitcase moving. Or maybe it moved. What to do about cicada fear? I turned off the light after keeping an eye on the goggle for a good long time and hoped the 6-inch long insecte wouldn't crawl on me as I slept.

After a v. late start, just getting p'tit dj., consisting of enough coffee to float a bateau-mouche, we headed off to the car dealer in Avignon to have the window repaired. "Pièces ce sont les pièces." Arriving an hour early for our 2 p.m. appointment we found the Citroen dealership shuttered for the customary 2-hour afternoon pause in work operations so with an hour to kill we hit the mall for supplies. Self-service shopping, now <b>here</b> was something I knew how to <b>do</b> <p>A vast reach of high shelves and wide aisles contained the offerings of 'Mistral F', a sort of french Target. Quickly I picked up a suitcase a trendy one-strapped 'sac urbain' with penholder and cellphone pocket. made in China, while the suitcase came from Vietnam.<P> Also got a vacation school workbook for Joe, and a ruled whiteboard and dry-erase markers, "Photoshop pour les Nuls" pour moi, and some envelopes to help organize the tickets to attractions piling up for Joe's scrapbook & my webpage. The suitcase would be just the thing, I reasoned, to wheel back the 8 kilos of ochre pigment, rather than carry them about on the train.<p> The car dealer was bustling at 2 p.m. and the repair took exactly the quoted one hour. Joe amused himself tremendously with the cars in the showroom; he and Irene were particularly partial to the blue 'Picasso' model mini-Citroen while I liked the 'Monsieur Bic' model Saxo, sans climatisation. <h4>Next: <a href="gordes10.htm">returning to the medieval Abbey of Senaque...</a></h4> July 1, 2001 <div id="f"> <p>If you like what you read, <a href="http://www.greenspun.com/spam/home.tcl?domain=theDailyChannel">click here to sign up for our mailing list</a> and we'll notify you when we post new book reviews </p><p><hr><p><font size="-2">all text and images © Copyright 1997-2001 George D. Girton.<br> All Rights Reserved.</font> </p> </div> </div> <div id="m"><!--#include virtual="/lmenu.htm" --></div> </body></html>