Bordeaux and Palmiers

The pachaire is a pretty common place for people in this area to hang out. There’s a small waterfall and two basins for swimming, as well as a swing to fling yourself into the water and an area for camping.

The pachaire is one of my favorite places to go in the area. I have always been attracted to water… I need to be near the beach as often as possible. We’re inland here, so I’ve had to content myself with the Verdouble river, but the Fontaine des Eaux and the Prade (check back tomorrow) don’t hold a candle to the pachaire, in my humble opinion. There’s just something about the seclusion of it, combined with the gorgeous falls that draws me to it.

Most people are under the impression that it’s a public place for hanging out and camping, but we know better.

When you buy a house here, you don’t necessarily get a backyard. When we bought this house, all we got was the house itself and a small plot of land next to some vines directly behind it. This “yard” is slowly becoming a garden, but we also inherited several terrains, or other small plots, out in the garrigue. The pachaire is one of them.

Because of this, the pachaire has become a place where we take each group of kids on a camping trip. We set up tents, Dany brings his guitar (and Derek brought his violin, when he was still here), we roast sausages and marshmallows, and we take comfort in the fact that our little “camping sauvage” is technically in our own backyard, an hour’s walk away from the house.

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