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| Fighting the Mistral |
I’ve been very happy with the weather in Aix-en-Provence so far and I haven’t even been there! At first I was collecting the forecast for each day between April 10 and May 23, but you know how that can be. Then I found the Time and Date website with the past weather so I’ve been using that:
As you can see, it’s been quite pleasant. The lowest has been 46 and the highest 81 but the vast majority of days have lows in the 50s and highs in the 70s, which seems pretty delightful to me. And most days are sunny or at worst partly sunny. Very little rain but a fair amount of wind and there are all sorts of winds in Provence: the Mistral, the Transmontane, the Levant, the Scirocco, the Marin.
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| Frederic Mistral |
The most famous is the Mistral, a cold northwest wind that brings clear skies. I’ll need to pick up a santon of Frederic Mistral fighting the Mistral for our nativity scene. Oh oh. It looks like I’ll have to pick up two. It’s a shepherd that’s fighting the Mistral, not Frederic Mistral. I actually expect to pick up more than two since I need one of Cezanne and a fishwife would be nice, or maybe a woman making aioli. We are going to the workshop of Santons Fouque with the Road Scholar group so let me know if you want anything.
