Day 31-37 Gee, where to start? I have been reading and eating instead of writing and will have to summarize the past several days. We spent our last day in Avignon going to a very cool English language book store where I purchased a book on Napoleon and Carol found something interesting also. Then we …
Marseilles
Day 30 Today's plan is to travel to Marseilles. France's second largest city and oldest, it is most commonly called gritty in the travel media. It's port has been used by entrepreneurs, pirates, and smugglers for centuries and continues to this day. We had booked our train the day before to make it as simple …
Goghing on a culture trip
Day 29 Sunday found us taking a Van Gogh tour. There were seven of us plus the driver/guide Nicolas touring in a Mercedes van. We made the one hour journey to Arles where Van Gogh lived for a year and was highly productive producing many pieces on canvas and drawings on paper. This is where …
Market research
Day 28 The plan to begin the day was to arise after 10. Then lounge on the terrace while sipping on our steamed coffees from the Delonghi Dedica, chewing on toast with one of the many choices of home-made toppings, and feed each other cherries. Well, that was my plan. Carol's plan was to 'get …
On the road again
Day 27 After giving Avignon the once-over yesterday, checking out many historic sights and stopping at a few restaurants and very cool cafes and bars, it was time to stretch our legs out of town. Friday had us on the bus for a 45 minute ride to L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue which is enclosed by the river Sorgue …
Boys will be boys
Day 26 Carol and I were settling into our new place. We were laying out our clothes, shoes, bathroom items, and plugging in our devices... Hey! Where are the boys? Wilma and Julie were hanging by the bedside table checkin' out the latest videos from Tech Guru but the boys were nowhere to be found. …
