Sunday, June 1, 2014 - Day 10

This morning we went to the giant town market. We found a vendor selling great table clothes and bought one that would work great in the dining room. Everything is metric here but I had converted all the standard table cloth sizes here to inches and we're able to get the right size.

Two vendors down from the first guy was a lady with dozens of large decorator fabrics on bolts. She had a couple of patterns and colors that were also going to be great for the dining room. We picked up enough fabric for Jan to make table cloths from them as well. So we've gotten four Provence table cloths on the trip, which will work great in the kitchen and dining room.

We went to Gordes this afternoon to check out the sites and to also see the café that was featured in the movie A Good Year. Gordes is a small town that was on the verge of extinction until artists discovered it. Now it's still a small community but very revitalized as a tourist destination and a place for Parisians to build luxury summer homes.

The café we found fairly quickly. It's actually a hotel, the Hotel Renaissance, however it's just depicted as a café in the movie. It's a cool plaza right by a fountain.

The castle in Gordes dates back to 1031, but was rebuilt to an extent in the 16th century. There's a cool fireplace that dates to that time that takes up one whole wall of a room. Unfortunately, this is about all that's open to the public.

We spent some time in the Church of St. Fermin. It's a Renaissance era church that still retains much of it's Rococo style fresco wall decorations. However, the walls are in a serious need for restoration, but this little town doesn't really have the funding to do so. But what is there is pretty fabulous looking and typical of the great fresco painting of the 15th and 16th century.

You'll find today's photos here. I hope you like photos of church frescos, because there are a lot of them.