Tapas, Passing Time and Palm Sunday.
Tapas, wonderful tapas: Saturday night we,
three friends, headed for Al Raparou
in Argelès-sur-Mer www.facebook.com/al.raparou
where we ordered a selection of tapas and washed them down with a local wine, a
Mas Rous.
To the tune of much laughter, oh-ing and
ah-ing and in particular ummmmmmmm….ing we proceeded to thoroughly enjoy
ourselves.
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| Al Raparou |
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| Tapas galore |
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| Great little local wine |
Passing Time: That time of the year that I
absolutely abhor (and no it isn’t too strong a word for how I feel!) when we
loose an hour during our sleep. Least said, best said.
Palm Sunday: the bells rang at 10 and I
wondered then if it was for mass at the church down the street to end, or for
its beginning. When they really rang at 11:30 I knew that church was out so
walked the 50 steps to the end of the street to enjoy the sight of all the
believers having their palm branches – in this case usually olive tree branches
– blessed.
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| Church in Argelès-sur-Mer |
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| Local equivalent of Palm branches |
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| Bunches and bunches |
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| One of the angel statues on the square |
Then it was off to the harbour and a
delicious lunch at one of our friend’s restaurants:
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| Even the sky needed sunglasses |
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| table settings at T'he au Quai |
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| Hors d'oeurves |
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| Local speciality a "Torrade" with salad |
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| Every bit as good as it looks! |
A walk along the harbour walls (we left the
beach for another day as very windy) and yet more interesting cloud patterns made
the day feel full – and very vacation like.
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| more interesting clouds over the harbor |
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| "Jaws" - which number? |
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