Friday 9 juin; last day in provence
| Our last day in provence - tomorrow we drive to Annecy for 2 nights: We have booked (taking no chances this time) at Exelsior les Marquisinarts on lac Annecy. We plan to look around that part of the alps and go up mont blanc if the weather permits, before going on to Paris on Monday: This week we have visited: - Roussillon, a town built on the edge of ancient ochre quarries, with houses painted all shades of ochre and red. The old quarries are spectacular but we came home a lovely shade of red - you should have seen some of the kids... it was paradise for them, if not for their parents. - Gordes, the ultimate in Luberon villages - everyone wants to live there, with price tags to match. The Village of the Bories, just outside is a collection of restored conical shaped very old (bronze age), built completely out of the flat stones called lauzes found everywhere on or close to the surface of the ground - like similar places in Sardinia, Ireland, Malta, all over. - Abbey of Senanque but the lavender was not quite there - this is the place seen in all the pictures of Provence: - Fontaine de Vaucluse - the source of the Sorgues river and fascinating paper mills and mill wheels. - Avignon - the pont, the Palace of the Popes, the old town. - Chateauneuf-du-Pape - vineyards planted on fields of rocks but yielding the most amazing wines: We watched workers pruning the vines to maximise the yield, with explanation in French, most of which i picked up. - Vellerons and the daily farmers market, where we bought a basket load of fruit, ancient varieties of tomatoes, white asparagus for next to nothing - picked that morning. We are absolutely pigging out on cherries and the apricots are just starting. The local melons from Cavaillon are just superb. - today and yesterday - Aix-en-Provence - the big Cezanne Exhibition for the 100th anniversary of his death started today at the Musee Granet - very well displayed and controlled - we had to book a time to visit. - Wednesday we had a rest day and lazed in the sun (burnt) by the pool, read and slept. |
next post will probably be from Paris!!!
posted by lizandarthur @ 1:12 am
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I will try to post photos when I have a bitmore time. I make mistakes when the instructions are in French and a, always getting logged out. Very frustrating. I want to put up a lot of Mont Blanc yesterday:
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