Thursday, August 20, 2009

Road Trips in Provence


Suzanne and I had a great time in Provence, France for 6 days. We took full advantage of our fantastic location and did 4 full days of road trips. Day 1 - Aix - we really liked this city with the lanes and lanes of shopping - court yards of restaurants and fountains at key intersections and wine vineyard.


Day 2 - Salon - went to a soap making museum and a chocolatier and Arles and a wine vineyard.
Day 3 - best day- went to St. Remy, Les Baux de Provence and Tarascon. Les Baux was my favorite place and we spent about 4 hours there. It is an area of no cars just shops, restaurants and the ruins of a castle village - one of those tours with English commentary on audio guide. It reminded me of Monavesia (sp?) in Greece but better! Then we drove up to Tarascon to see the medival festival!



Day 4 - Avignon to walk through the Palace of Papes then a quick tour through Bonnieux - quick because I was running out of gas and was very stressed that on a Sunday at 6pm I would run out of gas! Then a wine vineyard!

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