Esperaza changes

Alain and Veronique have sold the PMU Relais Occitain - see Follies passim - and it is closed for two weeks while the new owners try to clean it. 

************It is reckoned on the street that it hasn't been cleaned for 30 years.

The patina of yellow and brown tobacco stains on the ceiling and walls should be preserved as they can never be authentically replaced; this is after all a conservation area. 

 

And the Fournil, the nice bakers in Rue Voltaire, is still out of action after their fire ( again, see Follies passim) another couple of weeks closed there too, they say. 

As if all this weren't enough to worry us all, the middle bank of the point propres has vanished. You can recyle plastic and glass but not old art works. 

AND its raining. 

Jolly market though.