Hotel Restaurant Robinson Beaucaire

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

... the old stone replaced like this. But if it wasn&#8217;t done, there would be nothing left to see! Also, who&#8217;s to say what is &#8216;original&#8217; and what is not after so long a time. For a building as old as this, I believe a few renovations have taken place over the years! <br><br> Just down the street was the Theater Antique, or Classical Theater. A century ...

... a painting. But instead of letting that get to me, I will sink myself into the paintings and see the world the way Vincent would have liked. <br><br> Colours changing hue. <br> Morning fields of amber red.<br> Weathered faces lined in pain<br> And soothed beneath the artist&#8217;s loving hand. <br><br>Envious of the painter&#8217;s ability to tweak ...

... 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. <br><br>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 ...

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... Tim (Paul's mate from long back) and his new pregnant fiancée Annabelle were walking there. We saved them the last mile or so; they were so grateful after walking the cramped country roads they shouted the coffees with Annabelle's smidgen of French. Definitely not tourist country!! We then headed south towards Arles as this was Van Gogh country. It's tourist industry revolves around Van Gogh with tee-shirts ...

... town where Van Gogh lived for awhile - no museum though as the town can't afford his paintings. They did have a 2000 yr old Roman Amphitheater partly restored and used for concerts - hard to imagine the Christians being fed to the lions here! Yesterday was a non-driving day(French drivers notoriously fast, dangerous - playing chicken all the time) so we took the train to Avignon to visit the old ...

... the shower as onboard showering left a lot to be desired. The consensus was that 7 days instead of 10 would have been enough and a one-way rental would be preferable. Rain for the last 2-3 days wasn't in our original agenda so we disembarked 1 night early so that we could get our clothes dry and get Chris off early next morning for his trip to Switzerland. More in a few days

... did not not live up to expectations and we were given(what we found out later)one of the worst boats on the canal called "Donald Duck" YUK! Luckily Chris was with us as it took a lot of hard work to moor the craft and negotiate the locks. The second day out we had to negotiate 7 locks in a row as well as a number of single and double locks. We had little koalas to give the lock keepers which caused a lot of mirth with the other boaties.