On Wednesday we visited Aix-en-Provence, the home of Cezanne, for a few hours. This city intimidated the heck out of me last time we toured Provence and I never did get to see it (from the inside). Then, I was only 2 days into my first stick shift experience and […]
We found our French Provencal house on VRBO then worked directly with the owner, via email and his website, to secure a reservation. There are downsides to such accomodation, however. Many vacation homes will not employ a housekeeping staff, meaning the chores of homelife will travel with you. You will […]
I really should be writing a Carousel coffee table book. We have now been on five carousels in five days! Nimes, an ancient Roman city, had not one…but two of them – about 200 meters apart! Naturally, we could not pick just one to ride on! Nimes also features a […]
On Tuesday morning we headed west to Pont du Gard. Pont du Gard is a Roman aqueduct dating back more than 2000 yeards. It sits on the river Gardon (it is possible to kayak and canoe here, we saw a group of kayakers launch just north of Pont du Gard.) […]
Hi there, apologies for the lack of a post yesterday. Blame it on France Telecom – our internet connection was temporarily lost in our house. Monday night saw OWTK touring the mountain village of Les Baux de Provence (awarded the distinction of being one of the loveliest villages in France […]
The rain is gone! Hooray! The blue skies moved in around 11am and the forecast calls for sunshine and low 70’s the rest of the week. Good news indeed! We spent much of Monday walking St. Remy de Provence (our “hometown”). I bought my first three loaves of fresh artisanal […]
It rained throughout our first evening in Provence. However, after a breakfast of fresh croissants (delivered to our door by the gracious owner/innkeeper) the consensus was that the leftover clouds would be clearing soon and that the day would turn out to be a nice one. Our amateur weather forecasting […]
(Our train is the 6615 at 2:20pm to Marseille) After our late, 1pm, check out we took a taxi to Gare de Lyon. From there we would catch our train to Avignon on the TGV. We picked up lunch in Gare de Lyon before boarding. I was excited about this […]
