Summer is here and it is extremely hot and humid. I don’t do too well in such heat and need to be careful about getting dehydrated.
The weather was similar when we arrived last year and we eventually dropped into a sensible French routine of being busy first thing in the morning and then rest until the evening.
To begin with, we couldn’t understand why everything was closed for most of the afternoon and why all the council-run summer festivities didn’t seem to start until after our bed-time.
Brochures advertising the summer entertainment programme have just been released and there are, again, all sorts of events around the city in the open air.
All the events are free and, although a few start at 6.30 or 7pm, most start about 10pm when the evening temperature is nice and cool.
So we now have a busy timetable of music, street theatre, circus performances and open-air cinema to fit in before we return. And lots of lunches too.
