Aix
Travel Blogs from Aix, France
The City of 1000 Fountains
(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
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!
... week. 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, ...
Beautiful Days in Aix
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 ...
Day 1
... at a cost of £2 on oyster is the cheapest way I know of to travel across 6 zones in London BA jets off to Lyon in France, the trip is short and painless, passport control in Lyon is easy as pie The team is Stuart, Kristin, Gavin and Adrian aka ...
Cycling in Aix with V'hello
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 ...
Quality time with Natty!
... pretty countryside, vineyards, small villages and climbed up and down mountains.Roussillon is considered one of the prettiest towns in France and is located in one of the biggested ochre deposits in the world. Roussillon is a small ...
que digo Marsella, amigos, de lo mejor
... nosotros dos solos, el esta quedandose con Sol, la verdad muy amable de su parte. Marzo 8 Hoy solo salimos a conocer un poco Aix y a comprar nuestro boleto para ir a Grenoble, se ve que la ciudad es un poco fresa, con la schicas muy arregladas por ...
A little unexpected...
... was in Aix with Roman, who I hadn't seen in 3 years (I never planned on that happening). We walked around Aix, which is beautiful with narrow cobble stoned streets, old churches...basically very Provencale. We drank beers and had a nice ...
départ de Moulins
c'était le début de leur voyage jeudi 14 décembre 2006 : première étape Moulins ...
Exchange Weekend no. 3 (Day 232)
... to do pancakes but it didn't end up happening ;)). The one thing we forgot to bring was maple syrup! (Very expensive in France anyway, as in 6-8 euros a small bottle!) We raved about the magic of poutine (which everyone seemed to find disgusting), and did ...
Calanques de Sugiton
... rate - 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 ...
Putting The Aix in Relaxing
... watched the world go by in a café with our morning coffee, before heading off to explore the streets. My initial impression of Aix was a little disappointing to be honest, as it didn't seem to have the small town Provencal charm that I was expecting. It ...
Aix en Provence
I stayed one night here and moved on. This was my least favorite place I've been. I have nothing really to say about it other than it being the most pretentious place I’ve ever ...
Avignon
... 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
... A great 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 ...
A wine lesson with Francois
... to supply as many essentials as it once did. But how boring is a vitamin pill compared to a good bottle of beaujolais? Aix is known for being France's biggest producer of Rose but these do not make up one of the 30 of France's Grand Cru's (6 whites and ...
Going mad in Arles
... Caroline de Monaco spent a year, doing what I do not know, it is a very small town. You see a lot of cemetaries in France and 'Colombarium's' where they put the ashes. The land does not have the freshness of Australia, it seems a bit 'epuise' or worn ...
Day 3 (Col de la Colombiere)
... stage, the stage tomorrow is a huge drive, awkward to get to the top, and we got back late totally bushed, we decide to go for the Tuesday stage rather and have two days off to chill following the tour is energy sapping stuff TOUR DE FRANCE ...
le départ en riant
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 ...
Day 6 (Col du Telegraphe)
our second last day in France, and another greta mountain stage is ours for the taking, today was our first early set off, up and outta there by 06:30, we hit the A43 to St-Michel-de-Maurienne the plan for today is Stage 9, the 159.5km stage from ...
Aix- at Last
... 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 ...
Couch Surfing
... In all, this was an excellent experience with this family, a very genuine and probably pretty typical family from a town in southern France. They were very conservation conscious, a trait that I believe we will see as a common thread throughout this trip. ...
Southern Spain, Southern France, & THE WATER EXPO!
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 ...
Qui mange Quoi? Aix-En-Provence
... we've had between destinations since Frankfurt-Marseille. It's hard to imagine that in less than two days we will be leaving France and a language we can both speak and understand to the relative unknown that is Italy. Nonetheless, in this edition of Qui ...
A Weekend With Friends in Aix
Being that the one thing we were disappointed to miss on our world trip was to catch up with our friends in France, to have this opportunity was too good to pass, and high on our to do list was to visit our good friends Olivier and Nathalie. We drove ...
compagnon de voyage
depuis 35 ans, ils en rêvaient. Libérés des charges professionnelles depuis peu, ils se sont lancés dans l'organisation. Aussitôt dit, aussitôt ...
Aixplaination
... that had bought into the stories that the French were spitting on American tourist. We had experienced nothing but hospitality and kindness in France and this gentleman was so ashamed by what he had seen in the media that he felt that he had to explain. ...
Day 2 (Bourg-en-Bresse)
... king of the mountains" jersey what a treat, a stage ending and a podium...what a start we make the long drive back, the spirits are high, we have seen a sliver of a race, and are craving more tommorow we hit the mountains... TOUR DE FRANCE ...
An Introduction to Aix
... on the street is up there in audacity. But here the people make you glad you tried. It is a very bourgeois town, not 'La France' people tell me. On the weekend I was late to a party on account of having missed the bus stop. Wandering through the streets ...

