ETA: I should, of course, have mentioned that this was my entry for
monthlydiaryday.
As I write I am sitting in a hotel in Saint Nectaire, in the Auvergne, central France. My husband and I are on our way to a gite just south of Narbonne, on the Mediterranean coast near the Pyrenées. This explains my less than normal day yesterday.
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The rest is under the cut. )