Grand Hotel Mercure Aix En Provence Roi Rene Aix-en-Provence

... English in the entire town. We found our hostel super late at night (and they don't make hostels in France like they did in Spain... no more free internet!). The next morning, we walked into town not really knowing what to see or do. But as we were looking for a quick Petit Dejuner (breakfast) we stumbled upon the Saturday market. We sat at a cafe on the square and had the most amazing breakfast 5 euro can buy if you ...

Over the last months of travel, we’ve met and talked with many people about what we’re doing. As you can imagine, we’re greeted with many responses. Most can’t fathom a trip without end or adgenda. Some say they admire what we’re doing. Setting off onour own, turning our back on convention and creating an adventure. Others think we’re fools. Although the woman who said that ...

... poor university residences, the state subsidise the university restaurants and canteens. Friday, for example, I had couscous, carrots, runner beans and a beautiful piece of fish, followed by a piece of bread, a slice of tarte aux pommes and a small bunch of grapes, for 2,90€. Aixellent. Just need to balance the mentalities of trying to get a good grade, but at the same time knowing that this semester is only worth 3% of my whole degree, so it's time to relax before ...

... 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.

... kill two birds with one spoon; it works. Ever the alchemist I go buy a handful of mint leaves in the Arab market; now we&#8217;re getting somewhere. I can&#8217;t look a pizza in the face anymore, so I close my eyes and savor the flavor.<br><br>After missing Rachid Taha last week on my first night in town, and Lura the week before on my last night in Wroclaw, I resolve to catch the Ba Cissoko show tonight. It&#8217;s ...

... the buildings in French. Lucy followed along interestedly. I looked for mason's marks on the blocks because I don't speak French. Ironically, the one place we went where we could not get a tour in English was the one that was the least interesting be be on a tour in without hearing the tour guide. In any other place one could entertain oneself by looking at paintings or sculptures or architectural features. Not here ...

... History, city life, and good food. Rating: 7.5. OK - this was even more of a drive by. We originally planned to see their famous Roman theater but we drank too much wine at CDP and ran out of time. All we can say is that they have a truly massive Roman Arc d' Triomphe (that looks quite triumphant of course), that they have amazing golden-autumn-sun-shining-through-the-l eaves sort of weather, and that there are very confusing street signs here. Rating ...

... is quite good although a bit more rich and heavy than Provence. We will have to give a pass on rating Bordeaux in this category. ANZAC. Can you say fish and chips? OK, that's simplistic and not fair. But the food in this region can't compete with the others. Wine Bordeaux. We almost forgot to rate the wine! Actually it was more in fact due to the difficulty of approaching this area and offending our readers or showing our general lack of ...

Apenas uma pequena nota pra dizer que amanha saio de Aix pra Marseille, onde vou couchsurfar com a Ludovique que ja vi pessoalmente em Paris.Estava pensando hj que antes de partir, pensava em ficar sobretudo em albergues, mas tudo tem se passado tao bem com meus hosts que so fiquei em hotel na chegada em Paris mesmo. Pode ser que isso mude mais tarde, agora no inicio tenho vaaarios Css que quero conhecer pq ja mantinha contato com eles pela internet.Tb foi um tremendo ...

... you are okay with paying 12 euros to use the autoroute. Despite the difficulties, the drive was beautiful. There were fields of every earth tone imaginable. Provence is, in fact, pretty much all it's cracked up to be. We parked our behemouth SUV in a perilously narrow underground spot and saw the town. It looked ...