Pale kids dans La mer

We're in Cassis!! Having a blast beachin' it up and eating lots of really good seafood. Beach is right outside our hotel with great cliff views!! It's really hot here but the water is cool and clear


View from our terrase at hotel mahogany rm 25


Breakfast from terrase


Hotel night neon


Linguini aux palourdes ( clams )


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Wine Caves & Ocre Cliffs

On our way to Roussillon, Cave de Sarragan winery. Actually located within a cave.












We tasted and bought two bottles of red wine. The cave was dark and actually pretty cold. The woman there was very nice, this was a totally worthwhile stop.

Roussillon is probably what I would call the hottest place in the world, but it was very beautiful. Ocre cliffs!








Last but not least, one thing I will certainly remember about Roussillon... baby nutellas for breakfast!!! I love baby nutellas!!




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Roussillon

Ocre colored wall with red hair girl


Mornin readin on our terasse. Before the sun gets too blazin



Ocre cliffs in roussillon


Bought our fixins from the market in Gordes. Gruyere, wild boar sausage, lavender honey, 6 grain bread and peaches. We got the wine right from the cave outside of Les Baux.

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more random Arles

The Rhône






Nice street



At Au brin du thyme, a great restaurant, earlier this week. Ben got some cheese thing for dessert.



Ben is a motorist.



Crepes for dinner near the ruins of a Roman Arena.



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Plus de Provence...

Creperie - Arles


Salade camarguaise - stes maries de la mer


Sea snails


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Ratch-en-Provence

Got our rental today from Avis. Gave me free upgrade to bigger car which doesn't real come in handy in tiny medieval/roman towns. But no biggie. Today we went to Les Baux, an old hilltop castle/fortress. It's mostly ruins but you can climb to the top and see for miles in all directions. It's part of a national park and surrounded by mountains, and valleys of olives groves. The top of the cliff where the castle is is probably the windiest place I've been!














Breakfast research

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Mercredi 22 Juillet

These are from day 2 in Arles. Time for fun again!! After losing camera we decided to get a real nice dinner at Au Brin de Thym. We had mini clams with garlics/butter/herbs, squid provencal with potatos and some creamy dessert stuff and of couse some cote-de-Rhone wine. Reeeally good!!








This one is for my mom!! Xoxo














This is the one spot we could get wifi, salle de bain dot com

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Camera stolen...bummer

Lost our baby camera this morning to pickpocket and about 100 pics of me looking real cool in Paris. Total bummer. But we still have 2 iPhones and my nikon for pictures, but yea bummer.

Here's a few pics at our hotel (pre incident)









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Nous sommes arrivés à Arles

Fountain in the roundabout near the sncf station where the shuttle from Avignon dropped us.


View from our hotel window, have a good view over patio garden

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Heading south

Waiting in Gare de Lyon for our TGV train to Avignon then some kind of shuttle to Arles. Can't wait for that 'Grande Vitesse'!!









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Ile de la Cite et tour Eiffel

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