Hotel d'Arlatan Arles

Plan was to stay in Avignon but when we arrived we decided it was too big for us and after driving around the outide of the ramparts of the old city walls - very cool and the main thing we wanted to see - we made our way onwards to Fontaine de Vaucluse which is 20kms past Avignon. We arrived just before dark and found an Aire de Service at the edge of town where settled in for 2 days. The town ...

Wait a minute, we&#8217;re not traveling to Italy until tomorrow&#8230;but we spent the day in Arles exploring Roman architecture. <br><br>The biggest site in town is the amphitheatre, or coliseum. Glimpses through different side streets pull you even closer like the hub it has always been. Huge in scale, some seating is till original and large towers give sweeping views of the ...

... add details, and as Vincent so skillfully did: show movement and texture with brush strokes. As I photographer, I must only capture what is there. Although I can make some minute adjustments, it&#8217;s reality. So many times I wish a tree would just move to the left, the shadow would fall differently, or that a person would get out of the way! In the few ...

... and get the plane to Singapore. We should be sleeping in a hotel bed this time next week at Bintan Island and while this has been a fantastic trip I will be glad of a bigger bed and some luxuries.<br><br>Very warm regards to you all - we are missing the dogs heaps and we pat as many here as possible.<br><br>More news soon but not sure where from - it may not be until Bintan.<br><br>X X X<br><br>

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... Mr. Bull always loses. Vincent Van Gogh came to Arles late 19th century and was drawn by the "Mediterranean light". He was there 15 months and put out 300 paintings, the most productive time of his career. Everything around Arles is devoted to VG. A neat VG trail was established where they put a copy of a painting in the position of where his easel would have been. His famous "Starry Night on the Rhone" was ...

July 15th, 2007 Talk about awkward this morning... I woke up, showered, got ready to go to Pierre's for a bbq and some swimming. On my way out I decided to grab a can of Coca-light from the fridge. I saw Elise was boiling something on the stove while she was outside cleaning so I looked around the kitchen a little. I grabbed my Coke and went to leave. You can see Elise's bed from the kitchen and ...

... of one of the IES staff members here. He is also a chef so we had an amazing lunch. There was pasta, bread with olive spread, tomatoes and mozzarella, chicken wings, and a chickpea salad. The most surprising plate had a whole bunch of mussels and onions. I ate one mussel. The taste was great but the texture, not so much. We drank Orangina and Perrier. After lunch we did a little sunbathing by the pool. It got too warm so a few of ...

... so far. Had lunch right next to the coliseum - the girls had the fruit plate and was the winner. Had melon with Balsaimic reduction that was to die for and the Basil ice cream was beyond words - as I said, the girls won. I brought 'the red book' with us on the trip. It is a book we found at the Bainbridge Winery in Washington State several years ago. It is a book done by a fellow in 1929 as he toured France. He drew ...