Category: Provence
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The Lavender Didn’t Save Us
A Three-Day Dispatch from Provence Day 1: Lacoste — Where Memory Wears Linen We arrived in Lacoste just before noon. The air was lavender-laced and stubbornly warm, the kind of heat that settles behind your knees and doesn’t apologize for it. The village unfurled in soft, honey-colored stone, as if someone had built a town…
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On the footsteps of Van Gogh – Visiting Arles
Arles is a historic city in the Provence region of Southern France. It was a well known Roman city for centuries and has an impressive display of Roman amphitheater and Gladiator arena. In late nineteenth century Arles became a hub of great impressionists. Getting to Arles Arles is one of the 4 major towns in…
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Passing Through Avignon
After an afternoon in Madrid, Spain we flew to Marseilles for our Provence part of the vacation. Although we didn’t really spend a lot of time in Madrid, seeing my club Real Madrid, going through the hop on hop off bus – spending the rest of the early night time going around the city at…
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