We'll always have ...

During our last few days in Paris, we did not pause to take many pictures but will carry with us fond memories of the café at Place Colette, the evening of couscous and laughter with Miriam, Alain, and Gretchen, and the tour of The Cube digital art center with Carol-Ann.

And, of course, we'll always have Bofinger's ....

The Very Best of Arles

The beautiful house Jean and Marie loaned to us

Outside the door, the first day

The view from the kitchen window

Lunchtime


Christianne who had everything prepared for our arrival and showed us the town

A statue marking a street corner

The Arles Photography Festival

The exhibit of "bad" wedding photography was especially good - funny, human, accidentally meaningful

The old railroad atelier, site for many of the exhibits

Day trips

On the train to Avignon

The Palais des Papes

Camargue beach in the morning

Marie and Didier at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

A Romanesque church on the way to St. Remy

St. Remy de Provence

Féria du Riz

Music and dancing in the streets

Corrida de toros


Time with Jean, Marie, and family

Dinner at Anne's

At Le Malarte during the rice festival....

...where the music - including brass marching band in the bar - was a bit loud!

Tourists in St. Remy

Merci beaucoup à nos amis et a la prochaine!

Bien Manger en Provence

This blog hasn't been about food recently, but our week in Arles was all about eating well.

For petite déjeuner.... 

and cocktail snacks....

....we made many trips to the boulangerie at the end of the street

Saturday's market in Arles was the biggest we'd seen.

And if lunch from the market took a little work....

....it was worth it!

But while Didier's #1 food memory from Provence are the oysters from the market, mine are the four desserts Sébastien and Annabel served us....

Creme reglisse, rice pudding with raspberry and fig, creme caramel, and a rhubarb tart

with champagne, of course!

....and on the lighter side, Anne's delicious soupe au pistou.


Try this recipe for Soupe au Pistou

Nos Voyages en Panorama

Chalon sur Saône in Bourgogne



Port Leucate, the last day of the August vacation


Chateau de Lara near Toulouse

Hauterive sur Tarn, a village reachable only by small boat


Ste Enimie in the Gorges due Tarn


The Valley du Tarn

French 101, Les Editions Grenade, Gaillac, et Villefranche de Rouergue

En Famille

Au Marché

Les Travaux

Les Loisirs et Les Promenades