Novotel - Aix-En-Provence (Sud)

... 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. <br>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 ...

... The woman talked about the large mountains we would encounter and how the weather was supposed to be bad for the next week. <br><br>When discussing our trip, she said it was &#8216;beau&#8217;. Asked if we had a map - no, transaltion book - no, telephone - no. I said &#8216;je suis fou?&#8217;. But she confirmed, no &#8216;beau&#8217;, but offered us a place to stay at their home. As she started ...

... weekend has put me right back on track, though, and so hopefully uni work will follow suit. Also got a lovely postcard from Dad looking over Holnicote, great to hear that everyone at home is well, even though I think I sometimes forget that life still carries on there when I'm not around. <br><br>Bon soir to all, from a very happee Charlotteee<br>xx<br><br>P.S Managed to get to one of the markets in town this week, got a full bag of fruit and vegetables for about 5&#8364;!<br>

Bonjour avec Aix-en-Provence Cherie<br>Since the last news we have visited the Cote D'Azur spending time at Monte Carlo and Antibes. We stayed near Antibes at a place called Biot and at night you could hear the seals at nearby Marineland - very strange. It was still quite hot and stickey with more mozzies. Monte Carlo was wall to wall money with billions of dollars in boats and cars. Antibes was similar but it had a lovely old town as well.<br>We arrived ...

... I have to spend $8 for a sandwich and bad coffee- like Maxwell House espresso or something- to find out whether their WiFi&#8217;s up and running, then that won&#8217;t work. I&#8217;ve got about one more place to try, and then I&#8217;ll have no other option but funky cyber-cafes. Welcome to 1999. I like my room, though. The French have just about perfected the combo bed/bathroom, which allows them to save dirty face ...

... went to the Office de Tourisme where they give out a list of available accommodation, from just rooms to six bedroom houses, but as the day wore on, we realised that these were mainly one year contracts and so no luck there. We went to a few privately run student halls, all of which were either full or asked for contracts for a year, and one in particular was much too small for two people, Lizzie and I would literally have been living on top of each other (it ...

Bonjour!!! To everyone who received an email about my first travel blog I apologize, there were some technical difficulties with it but I think I am good to go now! You just get to read a novel to catch up on everything :-) So, thanks to the precent set by my wonderful sister Amanda, here is my blog! For those of you who don't know, I'm studying abroad right now, which means Davidson College is allowing me to go to school in a foreign country for the semester ...

After a 10 hour bus ride arriving at 5 am gah! arrived in france for the first time since 2000. staying zwith my mate kate who has been in france for half a year studying in the langauge.. her grasp of french is amazing, but i must say im understanding a lot more than i thought; at least 60 per cent of conversations. Slept most of the day then toured aix and went out ...

... just outside with a very frequent service. That took me along a boulevard which must have extended over 5km. in a dead straight line. Noticed that Marseille also had its bike scheme which seemed to be well used -perhaps because it had a dedicated cycle track ( which looked like it might have been an abandonned tram track) running the whole length of the boulevard. Towards Luminy we were among villas set in the hills and finally ended up at a car park in ...

... or two. Maybe "irreverent" is the wrong word for it, but it was something like that. Nothing was roped off and there were few things under glass. There was an original Cezanne watercolor painting (a study for another painting) that was framed and fading that had been placed haphazardly on a window sill, and his wedding and funeral announcements were displayed among some random pictures and diary entries without labels or explanations. A photograph of Cezanne, Monet, and ...