Auberge du Presbytere Saignon

... a tour around the military port and the bay. Saw some very big and scary-lookin’ boats, but apart from them the bay was beautiful, with lots of fishing platforms out in the water, and it was a lovely sunny day. After disembarkment, thanking the pirate-looking guides on our way, we headed to the Stade Mayol, which had a bit of a festival atmosphere, the restaurants cooking outside and selling drinks. At the gates, the steward took the cap of my water bottle from me ...

Plan was to stay in Avignon but when we arrived we decided it was too big for us and after driving around the outide of the ramparts of the old city walls - very cool and the main thing we wanted to see - we made our way onwards to Fontaine de Vaucluse which is 20kms past Avignon. We arrived just before dark and found an Aire de Service at the edge of town where settled in for 2 days. The town ...

... made some friends had we the time and resources to put together costumes... I decided we were dressed up as Canadians, which I thought would have worked great until Tom pointed out that Canadians would probably speak more French. But we weren't really left out, there were only a handful of people dressed up. Overall; here is the tally of costumes in Aix on halloween: 2 girls in witch hats (with one stocking each), 5 ...

... for a start, is very different, especially for languages. It seems that the French love grammar, and so Russian is becoming very tedious, having lectures on why each letter goes where. The written and spoken lessons are going pretty well though, and the teacher is great, though is mad about pronounciation and accent. This might be wrong of me to say, but when foreigners learn English, do they ever try and do an English accent and pronounce all the words properly? I ...

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Since the last news we have visited the Cote D'Azur spending time at Monte Carlo and Antibes. We stayed near Antibes at a place called Biot and at night you could hear the seals at nearby Marineland - very strange. It was still quite hot and stickey with more mozzies. Monte Carlo was wall to wall money with billions of dollars in boats and cars. Antibes was similar but it had a lovely old town as well.
We arrived ...

... towns. It is a little further south and east and is surrounded largely by a cedar forest, so we got a very different, but equally beautiful view from some of the others we enjoyed throughout the day. We had no luck getting snacks, and it was too early for dinner, so we had to cut our visit a little short or starve. On the way home I spotted a boulengerie and we picked up bread, tarts and Lucy got something with nuts.

... I will stay here. It was quiet and so beautiful. Again, it was so hilly that we watched a toddler giggling as she tried to walk down this treacherous landscape with no concern at all. Luckily, her parents each provided a steadying hand.

Most of the buildings in this valley are built with limestone from the local environment. There are meticulously tended ...

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... 15k outside of town and had to pay an extra 4 euros just to get to town and then walk another 20 minutes to get to our hotel. Not exactly how I like to start my day but the bright side is that you learn the basic layout of the city. After checking in we found a small market that had some of the best foods I have ever seen. Eric and I have become fairly big fans of the olives that they have over here. They have entire shops that specialize in ...

Today is our last in Provence and like Greece it seems very hard to believe we have been here for two weeks. We have an early start tomorrow in order to get to Nice for our flight to Rome, so I'll make a quick update before I begin packing. Our stay here has been just fabulous, for want of a better word. Last night we went out for our "flash" meal. Got to have a reason for bringing the good clothes. We struggled away with the menu ...