Archive for May, 2007
May 29th, 2007
This time from Provence
Hello all, sorry we've dropped off the radar but we've been moving around a bit and have been unable to get to an Internet cafe.
We are currently in Vaison-la-Romain and spent the day driving around the indescribably beautiful Cote du Rohn countryside stopping at a number of cute little medieval hill towns, not forgetting of course to do a little wine tasting along the way.
This morning we awoke to the sounds of the weekly market setting up in the square below our window. We bought a picnic lunch to take with us on the drive and ate it in the tiny town of Suzette on the side of a hill overlooking vineyards. The sun was out and shinning but the wind was blowing hard and threatened to carry away our lunch.
In the past week we have visited Avignon, where we stayed for three nights and used as a base to travel. We day tripped out to Pont du Gard, an old roman aqueduct, and Nimes where we rolled into town during the annul bullfight festival (not listed in any guide book, Gretchen). The town was hopping and we had a nice lunch of Paella for Irene and Gardienne de toreau (bull) for me.
Another day we drove to Arles and spent the day, and yesterday we visited the abandoned medieval town of Les Beaux, and the not so abandoned town named after my cat, St. Remy.
Well, that about catches you up. Tomorrow we head for Roussillon and the Luberon hill towns made famous (at least in the states) by Peter Mayle in his books about Provence.
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May 24th, 2007
Last Day In Paris
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May 22nd, 2007
Bonjour encore
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May 19th, 2007
Greetings from Paris
I type this from France’s computer (our friend France, of course, not the country, it would be absurd if there was only one computer for all of France). We landed yesterday at 9:40 am and hopefully got all the problems were going to have on this trip on the first morning. But that’s another story.
This is just a short note to let everyone know that we got here safely and met up with France this morning. And everything (after that first troublesome half day) has gone swimmingly.
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May 16th, 2007
Pre-Trip Jitters?
We leave for France tomorrow and I’m a bit antsy. I’ve been planning for this trip for so long that I’m ready for it to just get started.
Last night I had a little anxiety dream about the trip (the only bit I’ve felt so far). In the dream it was our first day in Paris and we’d been going around having a great time when, around 4pm, I suddenly realized we were meant to meet the apartment guy at noon, and now where were we going to sleep. I immediately hopped on the metro to set off for the apartment only to realize I didn’t know where I was going. So I began digging around in my bag for my metro map. The first one I pulled out was for the NY subway, and the second for something else entirely. It dawned on me that I had brought no map at all and now I was really screwed.
And then I woke up and realized how ridiculous the dream was. We would have noticed that we were still schlepping around or backpacks and I would never have not packed a map. I’m very well prepared for this trip and expect it all to go very smoothly.
I’ll keep you updated, though, if it should not.
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