Today (Armistice Day in France, Veterans Day in US) was meant to be a get down medieval day. Only to get down in the medieval way we had to climb up the some steep stony steps. These led to the large granite ruins of Chateau des Baux looming over the farmland in the valley below. The…
Day: November 11, 2024
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Post by Ella On to Avignon with a delightful stop in Les Baux-de-Provence to climb around the Chateau and then an immersive experience in an old cavernous granite quarry. The drive was lovely. It felt like Van Gogh’s world. How much more spectacular it would have been without asphalt roads and cars. And if only…
Arles photos
Random pictures from Arles
You can park, but you can’t leave
Post by Ella Staying in a pedestrian only area in Arles and having a rental car meant finding a place to park added to travel challenge. Our AirBnB host gave us the location of a parking garage that was “secure and monitored “ 24/7. A 15 minute walk to the apartment. Okay, that works. We…
Our Arles place
Post by Ella ❤️La Nuit Arlésienne❤️ (The Arles Night) is the name of our apartment. I guess the hearts were meant to catch your eye so you’d stop scrolling the listings on AirBnB. “Oh, this one must be great, look at those hearts”. Honestly, emojis as part of a name confounds my brain. I guess…
Anubis
I’ve come face-to-face with this Egyptian god of the underworld and protector of graves. He has the body of a man with a canine head, so even from a distance he’s hard to miss. I first ran into him while moiling through the Louvre. I was trying to skirt the crowd and there he was right in…