Wine women and shopping

We started last night in the bar at the top of the Carré d'Art in Nîmes (I hope you appreciate that I am now inserting the correct French spelling) because the restaurant was full and all we can get is a drink. It's a great place to survey the scene, being high up, looking over the rooftops and right next door to the Maison Carré, which is a stone's throw from the Arene. It's still light so we head for our favourite pizza restaurant nearby, where they accommodate us with a great flourish by adding yet more tables to their 'patch' on the pavement. At the end of the meal it is dark and much more atmospheric, so we wandered the old quarter and looked and listened to all the interesting sights and sounds. A good night.

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Rob's group left this morning, on the early flight to Stansted, so after I dropped him off, I hung around for a bit to pick up the Brown family who arrived on the incoming flight and who are staying for a couple of weeks. Jan cooks a lovely welcome lunch, before we then head off to Nîmes again to buy a couple of things, and to take Katie (don't ask) to Decathlon for her late birthday present. Even though she is only 11 years old, she is already displaying adult female traits, in that she takes an age to decide what she wants and attempts to spend twice as much as the allotted allowance.