We hired some bikes and made a tour in the direction of the famous lighthouse. It was so hot this day that we didn’t get there but already the part we did was wonderful. It’s pure green and dark blue vastness with horses, birds and endless, empty beaches.
At the end of the day there was one more color: The shiny red of my sunburn.
How the light and the colors change when you approach the sea! What a difference some kilometers make.
Arles
Saline landscapes seen from above Finally arriving in Marseille Rians et son église Notre-Dame de Nazareth Allemagne en Provence Pont-de-Mirabeau Saint-Rémy-de-Provence et le Collégiale Saint-Martin Food Shopping Poppy Fields
Every weather is fine and we had a car. So nothing to complain about. As we always did, we stopped in nearly every village to have a short walk around and we took a lot of stops on the road to stare down the abysses of the canyon which is thrilling and daunting at the […]
In Moustier-Sainte-Marie, on a beautiful hot morning, we took a little hike uphill through the flower fields and had some great views just up to Lac Sainte Croix and on this enchanted village build on the foot of its protecting mountain. Goal to this hike was a little chapel called Notre Dame de Beauvoir. You can see it from the village and it’s an ancient, dark and really silent place where you can still hear centuries of pilgrims praying for a better tomorrow.
Dinner at “La part des Anges” in Moustier. Mjammjam. And our beautiful room at “La part des Anges”
I was completely overwhelmed when I entered this small house at the borders of Aix-en-Provence. It was here in this place where Cézanne painted all his still lifes. When I studied art at high-school, those still lives where my subject for more than a year and I knew all the objects I saw there by […]
The historic center of the city The modern part of the City
Aix-en-Provence is a small very picturesque city in the heart of Provence. 40.000 of its 140.000 inhabitants are students. The wonderful cathedral Saint-Sauveur
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