Uzes

Today we travelled to Uzes, a town of approximately 8500 people in the department of Grad some 26kms from Nimes.

Why Uzes you may ask - why not Uzes we would respond. It is an old town (circa 5th century) which has been well maintained and is famous for its Saturday market and as we found today they also have one on a Wednesday.

Sherry became aware of it because it is the French home of Peta Mathias and the town in which she holds her cooking school open to anyone who wishes to pay over €3200 for a seven day course!

As we found out today it is also home to a lot of coiffure salons so what better place than to get a haircut! Not easy when you can't tell the person holding the scissors what length etc. you want the cut so all you can do is sit down and let them go to. 

I am told that the outcome was "tres bien" and so it should have been for €17.

A typical French village street

A nice example of a building in the village

Typical archways from the era

The Wednesday market

The Chateau du Duche 

The Dutchy of Uzes ranks immediately below the peerage list of France (those of princely blood) and was created in 1572 - the current Duke is from the family de Crussol.

Having spent 6 or so hours in Uzes it was back in the 3008 for the 85km trip back to Montpellier which completed a very good day.