First Excursion to Simiane and Bouc

While waiting for a potential apartment, Sam and I decided to go on holidays, like the rest of France. Our holiday started with a trip to the two towns in which Sam will teach: Simiane and Bouc Bel Air.

Simiane is a little village on the side of a mountain. It has two main streets, for Deux Chevaux (the old car in the pic.) to drag race on.

We walked a while, circling the pretty, old houses until we found the new school. Voila, this is Sam’s new workplace. The inside remains a mystery, because like us and the rest of France, it’s on holidays.











Interestingly, the boulangeries are never on holidays (there would probably be a national uproar). So, even though the butcher, the school, the builders and the pub are on holidays, lunch is never a problem. We even got to trial the Tart au Simiane.







Truth be known, after a couple hours in Simiane, we were bored and ready to move on. Since the bus wasn’t coming for another three hours, we decided to walk the five k’s to Bouc Bel Air.
The ascending trip up the mountain to Bouc Bel Air was somewhat of a challenge in the extreme heat. But this is what the surrounding villages look like from the top. The rock at the top of the middle mountain in the distance is called Le Pilon de Roi- and gets snowed on in the winter (some trivia for you)!


to be continued...