{"id":782,"date":"2012-06-29T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=782"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:00:37","slug":"apricots-and-romans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/06\/29\/apricots-and-romans\/","title":{"rendered":"Apricots and Romans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little did we know, we had parked under an apricot tree and it was an apricot tree that was overladen with ripe fruit.\u00a0 The noise of an apricot landing on Eileen in the middle of the night is quite disconcerting and even more so when one bump\u00a0is followed by more bumps in the night.\u00a0 When we stepped outside in the morning, we realised what was causing all that bumping and there must have been\u00a0twenty ripe apricots sitting around us on the ground.\u00a0 While eating breakfast and getting hit on the head by yet another falling apricot (me), we got two loads of washing done and almost dried before we hopped on our bikes and cycled in to St Remy de Provence. \u00a0Yet again we had to sort out problems with Orange and our internet access, it seems the prices have quadrupled, so last time we only received a quarter of what we thought we had been sold!<\/p>\n

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St Remy de Provence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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St Remy is a lovely little town with very stylish shops, cafes and restaurants squeezed\u00a0along tiny little, mainly pedestrian, roads.\u00a0 The main road encircles it and has become one big busy roundabout with more shops and restaurants.\u00a0 On the road leading off it, to the south, is Glanum and we cycled down there to see two incredibly well preserved roman buildings.\u00a0 It was approximately 2kms uphill all the way, but definitely worth the tough ride and of course the ride back in to town, downhill all the way, was great fun!\u00a0 And when we got back there were another\u00a0thirty plus apricots scattered next to Eileen.<\/p>\n

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Roman Ruins At Glanum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A swim was definitely needed\u00a0by mid afternoon because the temperature was now in the mid-thirties, so back at the campsite we jumped in to the swimming pool and cruised around together in the water.\u00a0 There were quite a few other people doing the same thing and amongst them we spotted Susan Boyle, Picasso and Mark Reilly\u2019s Mum, Betty, strange that they all happened to be in the same campsite as us!<\/p>\n

After showers and more apricot gathering, we cycled back in to St Remy.\u00a0 I\u2019m at the point of really missing the variety of food that we have in Australia.\u00a0 We\u2019re finding that there really are only French restaurants in the small towns and villages and they all seem to have the same things on their menus, with just a few provincial changes.\u00a0 So we were both really excited to find a Vietnamese restaurant in St Remy.\u00a0 The owner came from Saigon, as a child, in 1977 and he was so funny to talk to.\u00a0 Especially when he presented Rodney with the bill and\u00a0loudly whispered \u201cit\u2019s a note from your wife back in Australia\u201d.\u00a0 He had all the lines and the food was a very welcome change; I certainly went to bed happy that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little did we know, we had parked under an apricot tree and it was an apricot tree that was overladen with ripe fruit.\u00a0 The noise of an apricot landing on Eileen in the middle of the night is quite disconcerting and even more so when one bump\u00a0is followed by more bumps in the night.\u00a0 When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8165,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/8165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}