Citea Aix-En-Provence

... and instead went out to a great classic Provencal dinner, and got some good wine. But then, we started to see a couple kids in costumes, or rather just kids in sheets. I think one of them had a mask. But on our way back from dinner, we found the bar scene. Mostly it was just people out on a normal Saturday night, but we had to at least go check it out. We were somewhat impressed with the Halloween scene, and probably could ...

... write her address and draw a map I realized that something was terribly wrong. She drew a map of Corse (Corsca) - a little French island I the Medeterranian. We were headed to Corse, not Italy! The victim of not having an Italian map and too little internet time. Who knew? Propriano certainly sounds Italian to me&#8230;<br><br>We weighed our options: <br>1) continue on and cycle across Corse (2700m altitude ...

... full of huge luxury yachts. No sign of Jonny Wilkinson though...maybe next weekend! The mountain area was also very pretty, definitely motorbike/cycling country (Dad, you'd love it, Eileen, the bends and drops are scary!), but although pretty, I still find the landscape up there quite arid and hostile...wouldn't feel quite as comfortable peeing in a bush up there as I would in a gorse bush on Exmoor (don't look like that, needs must)!<br><br>And now a little bit about ...

... yesterday, Saturday, and it is cooler but still nice. The trip here was spectacular with many olive groves and big mountains. Today we went on a tour to Les Beax - another medieval town with a castle - poor Graham and on his birthday too. Then we went winetasting and to the premier olive oil producers in France. The Mistrql was blowing on the tour and it was very cold but warmer back here in the camp. Tomorrow we explore Aix on foot then we go to Avignon.

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... cold with gale winds. The rest of the town is very medieval with tight windy heart attack sort of streets, huge stonewalls, and lots of shops selling the ever-present Provencal country products like honey and lavender sachets. While the lavender sachets stores introduce a bit of TCV factor Les Beaux seems wonderfully immune to such charms and exudes a thick and ancient lonely atmosphere to it that counteracts the almost Disney-like perfection of its ...

... stumbled upon not one but two excellent places that provided great entertainment. If only their were more wineries following this trend here ANZAC would be moved, gasp, ahead of the Europeans! Bordeaux. The great premier and second cru houses would not be caught dead giving every Tom, Dick, and Harry a tour or even a sip of their hallowed spirits. If you are willing to plan for a half year and put up your car as collateral though, you can probably ...

We arrived here after a 3 hour train ride. Wow this to is a really lovely place. Arrived in the morning to 24°c hurray - we pulled the thongs out!! Another university town with many tourists but a lot more english speaking people. A town were people come to learn French at the uni over a semester.........home to Cezanne (the artist) and the novelist Emelie Zola ...

... on the phone had been very pleasant, so pleasant that the events that I had later encountered with her were a bit of a surprise, so I was afraid that the same thing was going to happen again, especially since, that's how things in my personal life normally go down. I eventually called her after New Years Day, or I believe she called me, but it was during vacation. We talked for a short amount of time about what time and day I was going to leave for ...