Tarascon Show

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I just wanted to show you a few photos that we took more than a fortnight ago - before we had a week in England, before our last visitors came, because we had such fun.

Tarascon is about half an hour from us, in the Pyrennees proper, and for 4 days in early May, they had their annual show. Think Harrogate Show, but with the animals held in the Valley Gardens, and winning troupes of sheep being paraded down Cambridge Street to the centre of the precinct, with bands playing and people sitting round outside the food tents eating hearty dishes of local lamb, croustade and wine

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Photos

Stalls at the show
Always more picturesque with mountains behind

Winning sheep
At least we think that's what the pompoms on their backs mean

Tractor as flour mill
The tractor was set up to run the motor to grind the flour, to make the dough, to form the bread on sale throughout the day

Gascon cows
...and a little calf in the cattle tents

Merens ponies
These local ponies are a Pyrennean breed, black and with very long tails

Mother and foal
in the middle of town

Goat
With very splendid bell. Lots of cattle, horses and goats wear these, and the bells cost round about 100 Euros each