Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Day 13 Lacoste, Bonnieux

Today was an easy drive around some of the smaller villages that we had passed through on our way to someplace else and had somewhat ignored. The day was pleasant and the scenery beautiful. One of the more interesting villages was Lacoste, a very small town on a hillside where the Marquis de Sade built a castle in which he lived for 30 years and wrote about many of his escapades  Pierre Cardin has bought the old castle and is in the process of renovating it. He also bought several other buildings that he's upgrading, and seems to be making Lacoste a destination. For lunch we drove up to Bonnieux and ate at La Flambee. They had a great old wood burning pizza oven so I ordered one and it was the thinnest crusted pizza I've ever seen; Sylvia had another omlette.  That was pretty much it for the day as we skipped dinner and just had a little wine and Pastis at Cafe L'Ormeau.

1 comment:

Carol said...

Skipped dinner? How COULD you?