Auberge de la Madone Peillon

We had a glorous couple of days over the weekend thanks to the grandparents, who kept the kids for a few days. This allowed us to have a completely unstructured trip to Arles and surrounding areas. On the way to Arles, my husband saw a sign for the "Palais Ideal du Facteur Cheval" and told me that he had loved the place as a kid. He described it...

After the slight setback of Macon, I was back to having a great time in Valence. The city itself is "at the doorstep of doorstep" of the Alps and this was evident to me the moment I arrived, as the sun was shining bright while temperatures had fallen close to zero. At each edge of the city you could see mountain ridges surrounding it – the...

on ne peut pas rever de meilleur retour: sous LA NEIGE
cest vraimnt magnifique...
le trajet retour sest tres bien passe; et nest pas ete trop ,long
mes parents et jerem ns accueille a st exup... il a meme amene son bonnet peruvien...
merci a eux; ca ns fait tres plaisir...

voila ce blog sacheve ainsi...
que de mervei...

Après la chute de neige sur la France (pour bien débuter les vacances de noel), il y a quand même quelques endroits ou la neige a pu rester plus longtemps que 24h...pas comme Toulouse.
On est allé au parc naturel régional du Pilat qui n'est pas très loin de St-Just.

Du site internet : Le Pilat est un lieu de vie pour 50 000 habitant...

And we're back! Internet was pretty much non existent though the french countryside; so sorry for the late blog posts. At any rate; we decided in order to see the wine regions of France you have to drive, so yep, we rented a car! Freedom from bus, train, and metro schedules is amazing. Our first stop out of Provence was Orange, the gateway to th...

Après un été bien au chaud c'est bientôt le départ vers l'Orient...
Si je suis encore le nez dans mes valises ma tête est déjà partie.
Dans une semaine je serai de nouveau autour de Shanghai pour rencontrer des sculpteurs de racine. Sculpter des racines en Chine est un art presque codé; on doit d'abord trouver une racine d'arbre en bois ...

Bonjour mes ami,
This will give you some idea of where we are and what sort of countryside is around us -
We are living about a km outside of St Barthelemy on the road to Lamastre and about 7 km from Lamastre. St B is very small and has little except for houses, school, a mairie ( the council which each town has) and a bar which is also ...

Driving the winding roads with hairpin turns took us higher and higher into these amazing medieval villages. Lynnae got the willies in her stomach as we navigated the narrow, cliffside passageways (roads) wondering all the time how anyone ever decided to create a village so far up the mountains when they only had oxen or donkeys to move their go...

Click here for satellite map Hide lines Reference map So left the Alps and headed down to Avignon for the night as it was the easiest way to get to our next stop Barcelona. There was a big festival on when we got there so hit the bars but don´t know what the festival was for as all the poster where in French but hey who really needs to know why ...

Helloo....Grenoble is going well..Uni is a wee bit tricky at times, starting at 8 three days a week and lectures being no shorter than 1:30 hours up to 3 hours is a bit of a mission giving me a sort of numb, brain dead feeling at the end of Thursdays (about 8 hours of lessons back to back!) The Ski season started sunday which basically means som...