The last of the drawings I did when I got back from our trip was not a London one at all, but a drawing of the Béchard Patissier on the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence. They make and sell ‘Calissons’, a small diamond-lozenge shaped candy made of marzipan that is a famous local delicacy of Aix. I like them, not everyone’s cup of tea, but I always make a bee-line for this place when I visit Aix. Other places do nice ones, but I think Béchard’s calissons are very tasty and well presented, usually in those big white calisson-shaped boxes. I just really like the way the store looks too, and it hasn’t changed at all in all these years. I did draw it when I visited back in 2015, but this time I just took a photo intending on a more detailed drawing later to hang on the wall, which is what I have done. It’s up on the wall now next to those London ones. You can see me there reflected in the doorway, wearing my striped Red Star Paris football shirt (I didn’t bring a Marseille one on this trip). I was going to put this drawing into the Pence’s Art Auction hut I liked looking at it too much, it reminded me of walking up Cours Mirabeau all those years ago, usually on the way to see something at the cinema, I saw the Fellowship of the Ring in there when that first came out and dive right into reading the books afterwards, so I always associate those stories with walking those cobbled streets of Aix at night. I am actually re-listening to the audiobooks of The Lord of the Rings now, and I really love the Rings of Power show. The buildings here in this part of Aix, the Quartier Mazarin, are a particularly golden ochre, especially in the sun, going back to the 17th century. The red and white displays go well against that stonework. Even though I drew this after I got back home to Davis (I have sketched this on site nine years ago already), I enjoyed drawing this and thinking back to those days and nights in Aix twenty-odd years ago.