Hostellerie Du Lou San Peyre Aix-en-Provence

... its agonizing end, and I hop off, ready to explore.

The first order of business is to locate my bus connection to Torino. Looks like I can add another entry in my file "life lessons I've learned while traveling". As it turns out the bus station is closed, and I was supposed to reserve my ticket yesterday. Well, I've also learned that one of my strengths as a traveler is my ability to handle sleep deprivation, so I book a train ticket for 5am tomorrow, and set out ...

... easy to sort out. Sending Sarko my love!

And so now the run-up til Christmas begins! Some of the lights are on and there’s a Christmas market along the Cours Mirabeau that we had a quick look at yesterday, and they’re selling roast chestnuts in the street, so starting to get excited about coming home, but at the same time no wanting to wish my time away here. Town is definitely getting busier on the Saturdays, which makes Aix really feel like a ghost ...

... t speak french: baguette, coffee, pan de chocolate, fresh squeezed oj, all fresh fresh fresh. Then we hit the market, vendors were begging us to try free samples of meat, cheese, honey, fruit, olives, you name it. Needless to say, we found our lunch for the day.
Oh; did I forget to mention it was Halloween? Not that it really matters, since the french do NOT really understand what halloween is. We decided to not even ...

... figured this out and got on the right boat - well, a different boat anyhow.

Driving onto the boat we followed the sign that said ‘Embarkments’. I love how so many words in French are similar to what we use in English, but with slightly different meaning. I certainly feel as though I am embarking on something this evening. Something completely new and unplanned - even to us who hardly do ...

I'm not sure how much I can get down tonight because I'm dog-tired, but Lucy has gone off to the cyber-cafe and I'm here. Let's see what I can come up with...

Food here is pretty cheap, restaurants are very expensive, so we went back to Les Halles, the marketplace in Avignon to pick up some supplies for some lunches, snacks and dinners. Also, of course, we went for fun because Les Halles is a very cool place. Lucy bought seafood salad, marinated mushrooms (she ...

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... there. Turns out that no one else had paid attention to her, as there were almost no other tourists there, which is one of the reasons why we give this the golden JeffandJenGreatestHits award. VLR gets this title even though our arrival was marred by an inability to find any of the hotels which were supposedly there. In the end, we did find a hotel which from the outside did not look like anything remotely special. But every nook and cranny of this cute ...

... very excellent vintages can be had for well under a premier cru or a screaming eagle. The areas immediately surrounding this town provide excellent choices of similar wines at very competitive prices. Further up in the mountains we were very excited by the excellent and not expensive choices in Gigondas and others. The best part about it is that it is hard to get a bad bottle in this region - even the collective stuff is pretty good. The French ...

... cedo pq tinha que atender um interessado no aspirador que ele colocara a venda ( ele vai começar uma volta ao mundo de varios anos em outubro e esta se desfazendo de tudo.Decroissance total!) Pra ser beeem sincera, nao gosto de reunioes infindaveis em torno da comida, nao sou pelo fast food,mais nao gosto de muito suspense na hora de comer.Aqui sempre tem o apero que dura infinitamente onde mordisca-se biscoitinhos salgados, batatas fritas, amendoins, etc....e ...

Hello everyone! I Know it has been ages since our last entry! Well, perhaps that's because we have been faaar too busy soaking up the precious provencial sun. Life at l'Eau Vive Provence is grande I must say. We have had a fabulous couple of weeks. We took a day trip into Marseille and saw the old Notre Dame de la Gare on the hill. The city itself wasn't that great, but we did fantastic shopping! We also took a trip with our friend Helen to Avignon (you know the song "sur le ...