Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
*RELIEF is probably what describes my mood when I got to my friends' home - Mas de Gasc*
After a week and 1600 odd heat-oppressive miles in the saddle, my backside was due a rest - I needed shade and some time immersed in a swimming pool !! My friend Jean-Denis is one of my oldest friends. My mother and his started writing to each-other after the liberation of France in 1944 and we first met when I was 8 and he was 7 years old. He and his wife, Regine are amongst our closest friends and his family are "our" family in France! They live in a beautiful Mas (farm) and choose the traditional Provençal lifestyle - every meal uses local ingredients and Regine makes her own dressings and sauces without making it look difficult!
The first day I was there, I simply relaxed and visited the pool and took a long siesta!! On the second, I insisted on taking them for lunch - they surprised me by going to the restaurant at the Pont du Gard - the Roman aqueduct; eating in the lea of this imposing structure that has survived 2000 years.
I did not touch the bike, the Yamaha XSR125, while I was there.
I was going to be sad leaving but the "present Mrs Little" and the builders are waiting in our house with no kitchen 😆
@RobLittleuk
*Fat Man, Tiny Bike returning from The Alps!*
*RELIEF is probably what describes my mood when I got to my friends' home - Mas de Gasc*
After a week and 1600 odd heat-oppressive miles in the saddle, my backside was due a rest - I needed shade and some time immersed in a swimming pool !! My friend Jean-Denis is one of my oldest friends. My mother and his started writing to each-other after the liberation of France in 1944 and we first met when I was 8 and he was 7 years old. He and his wife, Regine are amongst our closest friends and his family are "our" family in France! They live in a beautiful Mas (farm) and choose the traditional Provençal lifestyle - every meal uses local ingredients and Regine makes her own dressings and sauces without making it look difficult!
The first day I was there, I simply relaxed and visited the pool and took a long siesta!! On the second, I insisted on taking them for lunch - they surprised me by going to the restaurant at the Pont du Gard - the Roman aqueduct; eating in the lea of this imposing structure that has survived 2000 years.
I did not touch the bike, the Yamaha XSR125, while I was there.
I was going to be sad leaving but the "present Mrs Little" and the builders are waiting in our house with no kitchen 😆
@RobLittleuk
*Fat Man, Tiny Bike returning from The Alps!*
