4 Friends in PV

May halfterm. Maria and I arrive first by Ryanair to find a warm, balmy evening, a little cloudy, but the air full of floral smells and a welcoming deep sleep away from the pace of London. Next day, Kate & Penny arrive via Eurostar and TGV, and so begins our holiday. Maria sums it up well on our return,

Seven days
Four friends
Twenty one meals
Ninety one steps
A hundred kisses.

I don't remember that we had time for a 100 kisses, we were too busy sleeping, reading, debating, walking, swimming, cooking, lounging, gardening, browsing, and eating, eating, eating.
Best meal inhouse was fried gambas with garlic and coriander served piping hot with Siloe wine.
Best meal eaten house was definitely our first meal at the Tramontane. Croissants for breakfast with some of our smashed mulberries were pretty good too.

The weather was perfect: warm enough to enable a swim, sometimes twice daily, and yet changeable enough so that we had some cool cloud cover to enable deep sleeps/naps and comfortable walks. The garden looked great and was unusually verdant for this time of the year because it has been an unusually damp spring perhaps.