This June, when I rode up, the Ventoux had another face: 30-degree heat at the foot where one enters the oak trees, five degrees and low cloud whipped by half a gale buffeting across the limestone scree between the twin summits, the aptly named Col des Tempêtes.
In the theatre's basement, a dozen silent, waxen-faced models were draped over the furniture in attitudes of apparent exhaustion, casting wistful looks at a buffet table, across the room.
Rain and hail hammered the roof of the car and gusts of wind buffeted us across the lane.
Across the lobby, the curry buffet in the Tiffin Room is a better deal.
Too hungry to endure the long line for the Spice Market buffet in the Aladdin, I headed for Paris, across the street, to look for good food.
"After services, when everybody was mingling, I saw him across the buffet table," Ms. Blecherman remembered.
A delicious buffet breakfast is served across the street at the Café de la Poste, also dating from the 30's.
The MCs for the evening came out to ease us in and let us know when it was our turn to get our dinner from the buffet, which was spread across three corners of the magnificent ballroom.
He was unimpressed by the acres of carpeting that had been rolled out over the green lawns or the mountains of stainless steel vessels stacked in a corner, ready to be arrayed across a buffet spread the size of a hotel ballroom.
Being as this legislation, in its original form and surely to be updated, is now on the legislative buffet available to lawmakers across the country via the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, anyone who eats food in this country needs to pay attention to what is happening in Michigan right now for it may soon be coming to your backyard.
Across the floor, guests dined on a Mauritian buffet while listening to prepubescents crooning from a stage.
