1 June 2006 Apt; Provence
Things have definitely improved since arriving at Saignon, with our lovely gite on a lavender farm - at the rate the weather is warming up, we shall definitely be seeing colour by the end of next week.We have visited the large Sunday market at Isle s/la Sorgue, m,eandered along th back roads in th Petit Luberon where we are staying - Menerbes (Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence), Oppede Vieux. Up until yesterday it was warm enough to swim in the pool, but a massive cold front swept across and the wind have reached 65 kph - so what did we do yesterday? visit the highest newest bridge in Europe, 3 1/2 hours away at Millau - a long drive, all on autoroute but worth it; particularly with the added bonus of the village of Roquefort (yes the cheese) nearby where we visited a cave and sampled!!!
This froggy keyboqrd is frustrqting ,e; so i zill close
posted by lizandarthur @ 7:26 pm
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Hi Liz & Arthur,
You must have had the same cold front as we encountered driving down from Split to Dubrovnik.
Dubrovnik is breathtaking and one of the oldest and most beautiful walled cities I have seen. The whole thing is in the beautiful white limestone that I enjoy so much in Provence. The sculture and architecture are phenomenal.
We are starting to get some education on Croatian wines which although they have a long history it has not developed a lot of complexity that we are accustomed. Very similar light style of the Italian Wines especially of the Veneto area but not quite as raisiny or jammy.
I just about killed my feet today on two historical guided walking tours.
There is incredible art culture and music here. We are going to an outdoor folk dancing event. The people are very friendly and accommodating.
I am waiting to the next time I can connect directly from my laptop to add another entry to our blog so that I can put some of the pictures on the site.
One was entered by mistake and the other is near the summit of Vesuvius. It is Rhondda in the photo: I dont have time; particularly with this froggy keyboard; to label the photos and I thought i had doznloaded something else:
I think I will have to wait until I get home to dowload photos. you will never believe how ,any I have taken:
Woops, I meant to say Etna, not V esuvius!
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