Novotel Valence Sud

... a sign for ¨degustation¨(tasting). We ended up in teeny villages with specatular views and even better wine. And these places are not like the wineries back home. It's usually somebody's garage or cellar (you literally walk into a cave sometimes) where they pour bottles without labels, for free of course, and have their kids help them with the paperwork. When talking about how long they've been around, they don't speak in terms of years; but in ...

found a great little town in Provence.. and as they say "when in Rome (Provence)"... we had a great meal in true french restaurant... happy to be away from tourist food... and had some very nice red wine........ just a stopover but a friendly little place and nice hotel...<br><br>on the road again...<br><br>

... en bois dur. Souvent ce sont des bois presque fosilisés dont on peut voir de façon très marquée les veines celles-ci dessinent des arabesques qui vont être utilisées pour donner sens à la sculpture. Au départ le sculpteur n'avait pas le droit de modifier la racine , juste la polir aujourd'hui il a le droit de sculpter le bois ...

... qui a donné à la maison sa configuration actuelle au 16ème siècle déjà, la chambre Claude Frère, Président du parlement de Grenoble qui fit percer la rue au 17ème pour donner un accès direct à son hôtel particulier et la chambre Lesdiguières, dernier connétable de France et ...

... ur ! Voilà pourquoi Diane et Henri-Jean Bayart ont acheté cet hôtel particulier du 15ème siècle. Protégée par une lourde porte en bois, cette demeure blottie au c&#339;ur de la vieille ville de Valence a pour particularité d'avoir été rénovée entièrement des mains de leurs propriétaires. <br> A la truelle et au marteau, Henri-Jean n'a pas rechign ...

Bonjour mes ami, <br>This will give you some idea of where we are and what sort of countryside is around us - <br>We are living about a km outside of St Barthelemy on the road to Lamastre and about 7 km from Lamastre. St B is very small and has little except for houses, school, a mairie ( the council which each town has) and a bar which is also the post office and bread depot. Each town by ...

Possibly the most romantic destination EVER, the Chateau Du Bijou is very beautiful and totally away from it all, but only just! We spent the weekend exploring the Ardeche and Drome<br>areas, situated either side of the Rhone Valley, which are both also really beautiful<br>and unspoilt holiday destinations. No crowded beaches, but fresh rivers<br>for ...

You know you have been away from home for a long time when you start speaking english the way foreigners do, like in my title.<br><br>The French keyboqrd is "azerty", not "qwerty" like in Cqnqdq: qnd so zhen you type you get qll kinds of strqnge zords: qnd punctuqtion: I guess the ,ost noticeqble szitch is the q zhich is q a insteqd111: Zhen I type I reqlly hqve to pqy qttention to the keyboqrd or I ,qke qll ...

... Bren was most unhappy for the 20Km.<br> <br><br>Viviers a funny little very old walled town (nasty alleys) but the aire by the river was nice, and has electricity. <br><br> <br><br>

Sue &amp; Mary were going to explore a different route to drive back to France but Mary whimped out of navigating in the Italian Alps and ze drove back past Nice and Cannes. We bypassed the cities and headed down to the coast towards St Tropez. It was very lovely and much less cosmopolitan than I thought it would be. We ended up bypassing Marseille and Avignon and spending the night in Valance. It was a smaller town with a lovely pedestrian area and parks.