Driving Miss Karen

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More Provence

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We only spent 7 nights in Provence and we felt like we took it easy (it was so hot!) but we still have some pictures to share. The area is beautiful but I have to be honest and say I preferred Tuscany. Maybe it was the better weather or the prettier villages. I’m still really glad we explored it and it by no means sucks. It’s also not all lavender and sunflowers as you can see from the pictures below

Provence is pretty big and includes beautiful Calanque d’En Vau in Calanques Natl Park. I did an awesome kayak trip and swim here
It was surprisingly hard to find sunflowers. The usual places were planted with wheat (maybe Ukraine war?). Caught these at dusk
Roman Amphitheatre in Arles. Still used for bullfights very similar to Spain’s
Cute little hill town of Gordes
Fortification at Gordes
Mental hospital where Van Gogh painted Starry Night
It was cool to see one of his paintings
then see the landscape (130 years later)
Van Gogh lived in Arles where he painted this café in the painting Café Terrace at Night and also painted the calmer Starry Night over the Rhone here
Karen got a fish pedicure. Very weird!
And we got the rental car washed
at Futur Wash. Actually very good!
It wasn’t all glamour travel 🙂 We had chores to do 🙂

Jose

AKA Alfred

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2 Responses

  1. Felicia says:
    June 19, 2022 at 8:12 am

    Thank for sharing, Provence and Toscany, beautiful places love nina

    • Jose says:
      June 19, 2022 at 5:57 pm

      Yes they are. United Kingdom in less than two weeks. Seems like you were just here.