The Castle in les Baux de Provence
From Kathy and Susan, 2 of our guests on our tour to Provence with French Escapade.
Hi all–tonight is our last night in Provence and the gods are sad. After a week of beautiful weather, we returned to our farmhouse about 4 pm, sat ouside and talked with a few people and then it started to cloud over. Now it is raining quite hard and thunder and lightening right over the hotel—-quite spectacular. It is about 6pm now, Susan will have a massage at 7pm and then to dinner at 8. Last night we had dinner here also and had duck–it was delicious—-what a tough life!!
Today we went to the Alpilles (small alps) to a quarry which has an underground light and music display of Van Gogh paintings projected onto huge slabs of stone. It was pretty neat. Then onto the medievel village of les Baux de Provence which is perched on the side of a rock mountain with the remains of a medievel castle topping it. They have displays of catapults which was very impressive and the medievel knight giving the demo was really cute and quite funny. The view down into the valley was awesome with its patchwork quilt design of olive tree orchards and grapevines. Lots of shopping or just sitting and people watching.
It will be a sad day tomorrow to be leaving this wonderful place.
Love to all. Kathy and Susan, Casto Valley, California.
My name is Jackie Grandchamps. In 2003, I founded French Escapade, offering another way to travel in small groups of 8. "Don't be a tourist, be our guest" is the moto and spirit of my company.
Check www.frenchescapade.com
Through this blog, I will provide information about France, Belgium, California, (soon Italy) but also some stories from my guests on the tours.
Learn more about the company in the French Escapade section of this blog.