Tomorrow is our last day in Aix. We have been here almost a week and what a week it has been. Yesterday, I had some internet trouble and couldn't post anything. But I will try to get some video up tomorrow. I have quite a bit of stuff on tape which I need to organize. Yesterday, we went to a town called Isle sur la Sorgue, Fontaine de Vercluse and saw the Abbey de Senanque. The Abby of Senanque is the abby which the Gaffer has a painting of on his living room wall with the fields of lavender in front of it. It is a working abbey of Cistertian monks, and you can get a tour of the place. Very nice. Today, we discovered a terrific seaside town of Cassis. it is on the south coast, fairly close to Marseille. It's like a miniature Nice, with a nice harbor and lots of cafes and restaurants. The ocean is a kind of turqoise color and all around are terrific cliffs, which you can see from the coast on boat trips. Quite honestly, we have done so much, and I have so much video which I just can't fit on You Tube, I feel as if I am not giving a true representation of all that we are seeing. I plan on putting many more photos and video on the blog when I get home, so don't quit checking the blog even after we have returned home.
Tomorrow, it is a day to relax and kind of recover, at least for me. It is our last day in Aix, and we are just going to hang around town and visit a museum or two. I have been doing all of the driving on the trip, and I can tell you there have been some quite hair-raising incidents for me. It's not so much that the drivers here are rude or aggressive, if fact I have found the drivers in Europe to have become decidedly less aggressive in recent years. it's just that we have been forced to park and drive into spaces so tight that the side of one's car is literally on inch away from one's left or right side panel. The garage in this hotel, for example, is so small and the spaces so tight, that it is required to back into the garage and park your car in reverse! Thank God we have a small Opel Corsa. Needless to say, my nerves are a bit frazzeled at the end of the day, and I really look forward to a cold beer or a nice glass of wine.
I'll try to get some video up, but if you don't see any, it is because of internet trouble here in the hotel. The rest of our trip is as follows: Tomorrow - last day in Aix. Saturday - mad dash back to Barcalona. Sunday and Monday are just hanging out in Barcalona and Tuesday we head home.
Please feel free to comment on this blog, or email me at josephweir@mac.com as I really have no ideo if anyone, except a few are even looking at any of this.
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Have you been enjoying any of the dry rose wines from that area? Pink wines get a bad rap here for being sweet and sugary, but those roses from Provence and the Rhone are usually wonderful.
I say get Rent-a-Renault insurance and just scrape and bang your way into those spaces, and teach those French people to think twice about forcing us 'Mericans into tight spots. Next time, I think that you should send a Chevy Suburban over there via ocean freighter, then you could drive those mean streets in style.
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