Pieds et Pacquets

You will drive through a dark green tunnel of plane trees which block the harsh sun like a total eclipse of the heart, before entering the town where water wheels turn lazily and willows droop to the clear swift water. A blue fence barricades the tables on the place where the river and market-place meet. And at the Restaurant de la Gare you might eat melon from Cavaillon with Muscat de Beaumes de Venise, and follow with Pieds et Pacquets, a stew of sheep’s tripe and trotters. And you