Whichever language you choose – Occitan, French, English, Welsh to name just four – the Mediterranean was blue today, as Food, Photography and France found the Atlantic over on his side of the land the other day. In the port at Marseillan-plage this morning there was only one working fishing boat (alongside some pleasure boats and a shoal of horrible jet skis being prepared for the tourist season). The nets, the flies and the dead crabs’ legs on the quay were evidence that this boat is useful, and I love nets anyway, so I took a few photos.
As I said, the sea was blue, and a few intrepid tourists seemed to have decided it was summer:
We took shelter from the sun and the wind on a restaurant terrace with a view of the port and had a good lunch – soupe de poisson with nice garlicky rouille, seiche a la plancha with persillade, a pichet of local rosé…..and only the rosé was photographed.
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Great rosé shot – I wish I’d had some of that soupe de poisson 😉
Thanks! The soup was very good. I often order it in restaurants because I made it once a long time ago and I shall never make it again – so difficult to sieve all the bones out!
The nets are marvelous–almost like nests of hair–and that last one, the glass and reflections in intense color–is STUNNING!
The nets may be a problem – I was reminded (in that other place) that they are plastic filament and are dangerous to sea creatures. The glass should be safe, though, so long as it stays on land!
The nets surely denote a job well finished: hope it was profitable also! I’ll add another ‘blue’ from my birth country Estonia: ‘sinine’ 🙂 ! And I would have loved some of the ‘kalasupp’ also . . . methinks the translation will be automatic 😀 !!
Thank you! New words in a language I don’t know at all – always a joy for me!
Lovely collection of photos but your parting shot is a work of art. Beautifully done.
Thank you!
That looks pretty perfect – except for the jet skis that you wisely kept out of sight. So good to feel that summer is here – sort of, anyway:)
Yes, but it’s still playing hard to get!
Oh lovely… can almost smell the salt water! Mmmm…