Bar on the platform

No way could you call Coustellet a touristy place. Despite being only a few miles from the hot spots of the Luberon, it never even gets a passing mention in any guide book. It is just an ordinary French town, full of French people and not a visitor in sight. Except us, as it's where we go most mornings. We call at the best Boulangerie we know of, we stock up on wine from the Cave, we shop at the little SuperU . . . and we have coffee at the Brasserie du Quai - (shown here). 

It's the Brasserie du Quai because it is where the platform for the railway that passed through Coustellet used to be. Now the old railway line has been transformed into an excellent 20+ mile cycle track between Cavaillon and Apt. I'm told it is excellent by Gordon as he uses it regularly (he's down there currently) and it is one of the reasons he brings his bike with him. Of course he always has a dilemma - does he cycle from the house to the track, knowing that he will have to face the long, steep climb back, but always then having an excuse to call in for a beer at one of the bars on the way. Or does he take the bike on the car down to the bottom and have no climb back. But then he has no chance of stopping for a beer on the return. Looks like he's taken the car today!!