Our little home for the week was in the village of Eyragues. The nearest towns were St Remy (see other post) and Chateaurenard (left) - rather small and quiet but with (bliss and rapture!) a laundrette and internet place! The chateau dominates although it had a bit of a battering during the Revolution!
The village had a small supermarket and - in theory - 3 or 4 restaurants, but until the end of the stay they had a touch of the Italian and published opening times were not valid in October. We were reduced to the Vietnamese (OK!)!
The gite was half-attached to the home of a couple of our age, who were expecting us to be Spanish because of our address on the booking form! Very nice people with plenty of ideas on where we could cycle, and with local knowledge on the Mistral. By the first morning we had realised the 15 Euro charge per week for heating was going to be used! We set off on the bikes and after half an hour agreed this could not go on! The wind up and down the Rhone was reducing the tem
perature by at least 15 degrees C! Hands and faces were frozen and even downhills felt like uphills! Meanwhile the sun shone! Many recriminations over who should have remembered about the Mistral, and whether we should abandon early and head for the Pyrenees - where we had famously hit freak floods in 2005! In the end we stayed and did more touring by car than was envisaged. We watched the local weather forecasts and our own DVD collection of "Fortunes of War"!
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