Mas De Grasset St-Rémy-de-Provence

... built in the 1st or 2nd Century and held 20,000. It was used for chariot races and gladiator fights and is still in use today during the bullfighting season. Very cool! Forgot to take a photo unfortunately.

24th

Up early to make use of free Wifi - that is Kim watched the sunrise while sitting outside a closed café and scabbing their Wifi! We then we hightailed it out of Arles and towards Spain.

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 ...

... didn’t even really resist. They knew the status to being ’Roman’ and that it would bring them instant infrastructure, roads, money, etc.

But enough of all this Roman talk - we’re in France after all! Italy will come when we set sail tomorrow night. For now we’re dining on our last few snipits of cheese, provincial bread and aioli sauce.

... 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.

Colours changing hue.
Morning fields of amber red.
Weathered faces lined in pain
And soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand.

Envious of the painter’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.

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 ...

... was on our route to Spain, so we decided to make a minor detour from the motorway and go there for lunch. We didn’t leave Nimes till well after midday; - it was a beautiful day after the thunderstorm of the night before, so we were exploring the old town, and the Roman Arena.

It always takes a while to find a location in a new town, so by the time we arrived outside Le Petit Comptoir (yes outside – after circling ...

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... down here behaves differently. This town is yet another gem, with the fast flowing but narrow Sorgue giving it a charming focal point. There is, of course, the square with Le Cafe de France opposite the church with wonderful zinc bar and wooden scroll work across the top of the windows. The clientele were varied but M and I were taken by 3 ladies of a certain age flirting outrageously with Nicholas the barman and, something I've rarely seen, knocking back the Sherries ...

Hey Everyone, This week has been so busy and I know that if i don't write now, I don't know when I will get to again. It has kind of been a weird week with all the hoop-la (probably didn't spell that right if there is a correct spelling) that has been going on here. We had class as usual on Monday but got Tuesday off since it was Independence Day back in the states. In reality, we got the day off because the president of the college and the European Board of Visitors ...