Every once in a while I allow myself an exception and publish a photo that was not taken on the day of the blog entry, in this case, an image from yesterday’s Saint Blaise Festival in Valbonne. At every corner, there was food for sale. Vicki (in the brown coat) chose olive and onion fritters while I preferred a table a few meters up the road where they had anise cookies and other stuff for people with a sweet tooth. It’s not obvious from this picture, but Valbonne is arranged in a grid with the streets intersecting at right angles. The village was built in 1529, though its church dates back to 1199. That, however, is a story for another day. In the meantime, you can launch Google Earth and fly to this very table at  43°38'29.58"N, 7°0'29.16"E.