Domaine des Tilleuls Provence

22nd
As we now needed to be in Barcelona in 5 days to meet Kim's mum it was time to say goodbye to Italy. As the day was overcast and the drive on the autopista easy we just kept on driving (from 8am until 5.30pm) and arrived into Les Acrs in France time for a beer and dinner then bed.

23rd
As we had stayed in a free Aire last night we were able to top up water, clean the toilet and then give Scooby ...

... over 1.5 million tourists each year as it is the source of a natural spring. It's wierd seeing a fast flowing river and then walking 50 metres "upstream" and there only being a trickle.. and then a bit further and no water... nothing but a big cliff straight up!

The town itself is nestled in a valley and is particularly pretty at dusk when rocks take on the colours of the sunset ...

... didn’t even really resist. They knew the status to being ’Roman’ and that it would bring them instant infrastructure, roads, money, etc.

But enough of all this Roman talk - we’re in France after all! Italy will come when we set sail tomorrow night. For now we’re dining on our last few snipits of cheese, provincial bread and aioli sauce.

Starry, starry, night.
Paint your palette blue and grey.
Look out on a summer’s day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

Arrived in picturesque provencal France - immortalized by the many artist’s who have lived here over the years capturing the soft light, countryside and charming towns. Arles is our destination ...

... we were nearly blown to Marseille. Tomorrow we are going on a lunchtime cruise on the Rhone with more food and wine and before that visiting the famous bridge and hopefully we will have time to go over to see the nearby fort in the afternoon.

Then we start the final run north - first a night at Beaujolais, then 2 nights at Strasbourg and one last night at Munich before we leave Big ...

... confusion. We drove the half mile road up to the Chateau complex and arrived to an empty lot. After confirming the wine tasting area was indeed open we found ourselves the only visitors on the entire, beautiful Chateau. Luxurious, indeed. We tasted their wines and various olive oils (olive oil tasting, by the way, is nearly as interesting as wine tasting if you haven't done it) then bought a bottle of their red to drink later on the trip and a younger bottle to take back to the ...

... where we were or where we were headed. About to give up and go home we FINALLY stumbled across a very dodgy looking little store with a room of computers upstairs. We were all very excited... until realising that the keyboards overseas are not the same as they are back home. You write two sentences with all your a's now s's and all your t's now r's and you just give up. So this is where I apologize for being slack with emails whilst away given the ...

2009年7月29日
$ 335;线：酒店-&g t; Marseille(马赛)-> 酒店

马赛 ;，大城市ᦁ 2;很乱，人ô 56;多，很无 842;，海景不 8169;。
午饭୲ 5;意点了 ...

... 34920;演，& 750;常有趣。
王月在一ߑ 0;小摊上买É 02;一只会猪 483;的木头猪
2290;
注：Hotel: Logis Toppin 强烈推荐， ;二星的价੬ 4;，三星的ũ 36;量。

Last weekend I went on a trip with my AIFS group to Arles and Avignon, two cities in Provence that are fairly close to each other. We took the A8, or Autoroute Huit, which is the main highway to get anywhere from Cannes. It was about a three hour drive, including about half a dozen stops at toll booths along the way. At one, we got out for pit stop and found our favorite store called Paul, which is the closest thing to Starbucks that France has. It's a chain (there are a ...