We rented a house in the Provencal village of Rasteau for the first time in 2000, (we liked this house so much that we rented it again the following year).
The house was in the centre of the village, yet had a garden big enough for a pool, but our bedroom window looked out on the village square.
On the day we arrived I looked out the window and saw a game of boules being played and took this photograph.

In the course of this holiday and the next we made friends with a couple in the village ; Marie José and Jean , and some years afterwards they came to Ireland on holidays. When they visited us I showed them the picture I had taken many years before.
“But that’s Jean ! ” said Marie José, “I recognise him I even remember that tee-shirt !”
Le Monde est petit.