Marseilles is multi-cultural, very busy and very grotty.
One of the many churches, ..
.. the beautiful Cathedral, ..
.. and the Vieux Port (i.e. old harbour).
This is why the French need small cars! We've seen many missing mirrors, scraped side panels and bumper parking.
We went on a boat trip to the limestone cliffs just south of Marseilles, the Calanques. Gorgeous scenery, all announcements in French only and many drenched passengers (they failed to warn people that they might get wet when sitting outside).
Eygalieres (south-east of Avignon)
Provence close-up: a week with Kirsten's family in a country home. Fantastic weather (too hot to cycle though: 35-40 degrees each day!!), great food and a beautiful landscape. It's wonderful to be here when the lavender is flowering and all stone fruit is really cheap!
Kirsten decided to keep her bicycle box. Not an easy job with strong and hot head wind!
"Mas de deux puits" - the house with two wells.
Many Lavender fields, ...
.. hill towns, ...
.. churches ...
.. and many excellent restaurants!!
Every day it's market day in one of the surrounding towns! A fantastic way to buy local fresh produce.
A must see when in the area: Pont-du-Gard, the famous Roman aqueduct bridge. The entire aqueduct descends in height by only 17 m over its entire length of 50 km!!
Those cars are huge compared to the ones in italy, smart cars seem like a really good idea. Lucky Ari can translate the warnings so I hope you both stayed dry? Beautiful scenery and gorgeous weather, the sky looks like it is without a cloud. Have you been able to get in some hiking? We did a 20km 1,200m ascent yesterday and we realised our fitness is trickling away. I think we need to set another goal to motivate us both. We are very jealous and miss ordering a noisette Which seems to be a kind of French macchiato.
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Love seeing the photos, but making us have very itchy feet. When we were at the pont du gard it was also very hot. Yummy looking cheese cabinet, although we have found a great cheese shop in Maleny and got some delicious morbier. Looks like you are having a fab time.
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I am so coming with you on your next holiday! Looks amazing! And lots of tasty food. Yummo!! I'll just sit here in the office with my drawer or goodies :)
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Michelle