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After the wintry landscape of Mont Ventoux, we returned to Arles for a drizzly wander down the block to the Alyscamps, the finest necropolis in Provence. Dating from the Roman and early Christian periods, the place looks much as it did when van Gogh painted it a century and a quarter ago, a quiet lane [...]
No Comments »Our first morning’s ascent of Mont Ventoux was just a few days off from the anniversary of the poet’s climb in 1336–but it was just as windy and cold as Petrarch described his long walk up the mountain he called “Ventosus.” While our scouting trip a couple of days before had produced a decent selection [...]
No Comments »For the birding visitor to Provence, no city is better placed than Arles, a charming and easy-going town that just happens to feature some of the finest dining in France and some of the greatest artistic and architectural treasures in Europe.
The evocative ruins of the Roman theater are flanked by the colosseum–still in use two [...]
1 Comment »Like all but the most sullen visitors to southern France, I fell in love with Provence the first time I laid eyes on it. I’ve been dreaming for years of showing this blessed countryside to others, hoping to give them a view into the uniqueness of a world that is as intensely cultural as it [...]
1 Comment »Janine very kindly put me onto a great website with galleries featuring photographs of nearly 500 species of French birds. I’ve been quizzing myself getting ready for Chirps and Churches in–wow–two weeks.
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