Vence 2011 Day 2 - Recovery Day

After all the effort put in yesterday, today is going to be chilled...

..and hot!

So step one is to head down to the pool. It's huge and warm and lovely - and it has a slide! It's lovely to swim in - even Buchan enjoys fetching balls from it! Tearing me away from it isn't easy, but there's the usual big shop to be done so we head off to the local Leclerc. It's huge and stocked with so much good stuff. I have never seen so much Rosé in my life! Seems a shame not to do a taste test..

Results later.

Meantime we need to schlep three boxes of groceries home. That done, it's back to the pool and time for a swim. Buchan loves swimming, so I trained him to work out how to get in and out of the pool and he's away - sometimes, he just swims for the hell of it.

The rest of the day is organising our guests for when they arrive later on in the week, getting Peggy to bring stuff out that we've forgotten and generally doing very little. Apart of course from more swimming...

Results just in: They're all good...

And the Pastis / Absinthe is lovely and refreshing as well...

Oh, one last thing. There was the most amazing fireworks display last night. It was on the coast which is probably about 6km away and it looked fantastic even at this distance. I was estimating the distance by timing the delay between seeing the show and hearing the appropriate bangs. We're off to see the big display in Cannes on Saturday. So looking forward to it.