En vacances

We love to identify the French as our best practice examples for work-life balance due to their month-long summer vacations. But being here as a tourist during that month kind of sucks. Prior to our visit, I had read that by the second part of the month, things should be relatively back to business. Relatively.

Our local bakery and morning breakfast stop (more on that in another post) re-opened this week, as did a restaurant on our street and our current favorite wine bar. But all of the galleries, and numerous other boutiques and restaurants are ferme. If you are lucky, they will post something on their website, or at least leave a sign at the door to disappoint you once you arrive. Or, in the case of the wine bar at the end of the street (which, of course, is supposed to be awesome), they keep it shuttered with no information in situ or online. We keep watching it for signs of life...