Aix-en-Provence, France Travel Blogs

The City of 1000 Fountains
Apr 5, 2007 (13 photos)

(S) Long before we came up with this whole Great Escape to Europe for five months idea, we talked about spending a few days in Aix for a vacation. We spent two days here in April, spending the night in a campground above the city. Still a bit cold for ...

La vie en Provence
Jun 25, 2004 (14 photos)

I'm leaving Ventabren this morning (a village near Aix en Provence in the South of France), heading slowly but surely towards my old home in Italy. First though the Côte d'Azur needs more exploration over the coming weekend. My festive but not ...

Provence - where leaves grow on trees!
Apr 2, 2006 (6 photos)

... . It will be hard to go back to Paris next weekend to a potentially shoddy hotel room! Today we drove to Aix-en-Provence where we've enjoyed the summer temperatures (summer by Vancouver standards). Every building and sqaure here is ancient, stone, and ...

Beautiful Days in Aix
May 3, 2009 (5 photos)

The Provence area of France is beautiful! It is so relaxing and has a certain old-fashioned nostalgia to it that I love: All the smells of the flowers and the sound of church bells ringing throughout the day. What a nice thing to wake up to - no sounds ...

Cycling in Aix with V'hello
Nov 2, 2007

Today I tried out the new V'hello (pun on the French word 'velo' ) municipal cycle scheme  in Aix.  It was very confusing but I think I succeeded better than the French - one lady came up thinking the machine was a parking meter and was ...

que digo Marsella, amigos, de lo mejor
Mar 7, 2008

... y al parecer mas caotica que Paris, donde la gente parece mas buena onda y mas relajada. Despues de el recorrido os dirigimos asi Aix en Provencem qeu es donde vive Fred, es una pequena ciudad, ah por cierto es de las mas caras de Francia, pero en fin ...

A little unexpected...
Sep 4, 2009 (1 photos)

So I was on Facebook, and I saw that a high school friend of mine, Roman Loonis, was in Aix-en-Provence, only 2 hours away.  Roman was the other French kid in high school and he also has family here.  I got in contacted with him and the next day ...

départ de Moulins
Dec 16, 2007 (1 photos)

c'était le début de leur voyage jeudi 14 décembre 2006 : première étape Moulins Ispagnac

Calanques de Sugiton
Nov 4, 2007

... - otherwise 4.8 euro!) and was in Marseille in less than half an hour.  The buses now stop almost at the Portail d'Aix, surrounded by its usual sad gathering of homeless refugees and asylum seekers, so I realised it was easier to go to the ...

Putting The Aix in Relaxing
Sep 16, 2008 (5 photos)

Faced with the option of a short drive to Aix-en-Provence or a longer drive to Marseille, we opted for the short drive and a relaxing day. We are at Day 8 of our travels today and have kind of hit a wall in terms of our energy levels. A nice sleep-in ...

Avignon
Sep 28, 2006 (10 photos)

... gardens with sweeping views of the Rhone Valley (see pics again, if you wish). This is the heart of wine country in France (Rhone Wine) and the great river apparently used to flood out Avignon and surrounding cities all the length of the river. Avignon ...

Aix En Provence
Aug 27, 2008 (11 photos)

... cafe for people-watching. Up early we make our way to Marseille for brunch, to plan our way to Monaco. Aix En Provence sweetest treat is a marzipan-like local speciality, 'Calisson'. A small diamond shaped, chewy delicacy made with ground almonds (Donna ...

le départ en riant
Jan 6, 2008 (1 photos)

chantons sous la pluie, MC je t'avais dit que je nous representerai toutes les deux c'est fait. Je suis en attente des dernieres nouvelles à vous transmettre Amities Michèle

Aix- at Last
Sep 26, 2006 (7 photos)

... of Art, of all places) and cannot stop discussing her divorce and the travails of travel on behalf of the museum here in France. I figured out, at last, what a Plane tree is. MFK wrote often about these trees and Aix is filled with Sycamores. I ...

Southern Spain, Southern France, & THE WATER EXPO!
Aug 1, 2008 (19 photos)

            Bon jour from Aix-en-Provence, France! Sorry we haven't written in a while, but we have not had a good internet connection in quite some time. Let us catch you up. After seeing the sights ...

A Weekend With Friends in Aix
Jun 11, 2007 (32 photos)

... , and high on our to do list was to visit our good friends Olivier and Nathalie. We drove to Olivier & Nathalie's place in Aix En Provence on Friday night, about a 2 hour drive. Upon arrival we met their 18 month old daughter Noeme (pronounced "No-em-ie ...

compagnon de voyage
Dec 16, 2007 (2 photos)

depuis 35 ans, ils en rêvaient. Libérés des charges professionnelles depuis peu, ils se sont lancés dans l'organisation. Aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait.

Photo Day- Mixed Emotions
Sep 29, 2006 (28 photos)

... I was walking down the street of the hotel on the second day, a woman approached and smiled shyly at me. I know no one in Aix and wondered; as she got closer, it was Maria (I guessed) and we stopped to chat. Using my rudimentary French I asked her how ...

Visit to Aix-En- Provence
Apr 9, 2009 (17 photos)

... . The visit was far too short, but we had to get going because Jean wanted to give us a power tour of Aix en Provence and get back home before the rush hour traffic.  Aix is a beautiful old town with fountains galore, cobblestone streets and cafes by ...

French Survival Guide Part II
Jul 12, 2006

In lesson one of the French Survival Guide, we introduced the magical concept of the "Je ne sais pas." The second lesson in the guide should be used in situations that can best be described as "When all else fails..." As many Foreign Language Learners ( ...

Culture and Culture Shock
Jul 7, 2006 (9 photos)

... . While I've seen this particular episode, I now can pick out only one in ten words. Even with American content, I am lost in France. Perhaps it is only the late hour of the evening, or the tenacious tendrils of jet lag, but I can't help but wonder: ...

GG a enfin accouché de sa synthèse sur l'Afrique
Mar 25, 2008 (30 photos)

... enseignement technique agricole local et de vastes développements ruraux qui leur permettraient de cultiver et d'exporter. De l'eau il y en a autant qu'en France mais elle tombe en trois mois au lieu de se répartir sur l'année. Il faut savoir la récupérer ou ...

Marseille
Apr 28, 2008

... voilà pour mon départ sur Nice et le voyage en solitaire! J'ai été recue avec Céline et étienne comme une reine chez Marc. On est à Aix-en-provence qui est à 30 minutes de Marseille. On nous a emmené voir les calanques sur le bord de la mer. C'est des précipices de ...

French Survival Guide
Jul 12, 2006

French Survival Guide: How to flounder through all French language experiences After studying a language, especially French for many years, one may quickly learn that not all real-life situations match neatly with the lessons taught in French 101. For ...

A Day in Provence
May 30, 2005 (4 photos)

... and never went back. Her last job was as a producer for CNN. We spent Tuesday 31 May walking the streets of Aix-en-Provence, a city of 250,000 which is host to four universities. The architecture of the cathedral goes back to the 4th century, and the ...

AIx- Not a finger in the Dike but.....Day Two
Sep 28, 2006 (1 photos)

... to Avignon and the Palais du Popes. We shall see if I can do it! Searched for, and found, the old cathedral of Aix. It was actually pretty cool. Small by almost any standard, it was started in the Fifth century and has something from each century ...

Aix-en-Provence
Dec 13, 2008

I didn't plan to go to Aix but it just sort of happened, from Marseille it's quite close so I got the bus. The place is nice, not much in terms of sights. There's a cool statue of Cezanne. Spent a few days there, was a good experience. I had my own dog.

Aix en Provence
Apr 22, 2005

Arrived in Aix after spending the day in Avignon (of the famous bridge). Aix is a university/market town. Every day was sunny and gorgeous. Basically, a few days of lying in the sun, shopping and afternoon siesta-ing.

Aix en Provence - I know... where?!?!
Jun 3, 2007 (1 photos)

Don't ask me what I'm doing here - I'm not too sure myself...

no chateau :(
Sep 9, 2009

We arrived safe and sound on the 8th, its very warm here. We did get to the museum Granet to see Picasso and Cezanne exhibit. We tried to visit Picasso's chateau (castle) but the tickets were sold out.  So, lots of shopping and drinking. Go ...