Phew! Summer Reigns!

 18.7.21: Latest from Here

July so far has been hot and there are more people in the village on holiday. Life for me has continued with its usual routines and I'm finally trying to repalce walks with the treadmill. Social life while nothing spectacular leaves no room for complaint. Time spent with friends brings much pleasure. 

We've just had a 23h curfew for bars and restaurants reimposed because of the increase of the Delta variant transmission from the 1st of August we're supposed to show a vaccination pass if going into bars and restaurants even on terraces. How on earth can such demands be controlled. Trips into Spain are no longer advised. And then, due to all the dry vegetation and careless, irresponsible people, summer fires have started up. Thank goodness it's not all gloom  as the photo collage shows. Céret hosted the depart of 15th stage of the Tour de France which brought much excitement and a boost to morale. As the late lamented Fidelma Cook, who wrote a column in "The (Glasgow) Herald" about living in France said, "onwards and upwards!".