On Van Gogh’s footsteps
What can be more emotional for painters than being where Van Gogh painted his most famous paintings? We went to St Remy de Provence and visited the St Paul Mausole where Vincent was hospitalized the last year of his life. The garden full of red poppies made for a beautiful picture: contrast of blue sky, grey building and red flowers.
Linda couldn’t stop taking pictures and had to be VERY close to the flowers.
The cloister with old and new arches was full of flowers in bloom. Sandy, Barbara and Linda A spent a few hours painting it while Bonnie got her inspiration for writing.
The place is full of paintings of Van Gogh (well, posters of his paintings). The most expensive one that is worth 45 millions of dollars is in a private collection: the irises
Linda C is our techy. She spent most of her time either on her ipad, her iphone, texting, checking her emails, using mobile me, etc… Even her grand kids call her: techy grand ma.
The weather cooled off a bit which was perfect. Instead of 39 degrees Celsius, it was 25.
Another French escapade day ends. Check our all our painting tours at www.frenchescapade.com
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.
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