"In our travels in France of course I am thinking of you and Jim and how you fell in love with the country and its lifestyle. I can see why! We spent three days in Marseille, visited Aix en Provence, Castelet. Cassis and the Camarque . River cruise has been wonderful to see the countryside.. Arles,Avignon and we just docked in Lyon. Food is amazing. "
We've been to pretty much everywhere they mention except the Camarque (although we probably drove through some of it going to Arles) and Lyon. Elaine, I know you loved Lyon. A colleague of Jim's when he was teaching in France invited us to come and stay with her family but when we heard we were going to be on a hide-a-bed and there was a new puppy not yet house trained, we decided to give it a pass. Funny about Le Castelet which is a mountain village and the first time we visited it was in 1976 and there were very few people. The next time in 2002, there was a huge parking lot filled with cars and tour buses and the streets were packed...what a change! It was a coolish Feb day and we worried about getting a place in a restaurant but it seems most of the tourists are just passing quickly through. Still, we lucked into a wonderful restaurant and were seated by the open fire and could watch our rack of lamb cook. Now, that was an amazing meal!
I think Cassis will always remain the most beautiful village on the Mediterranean for me...just love the place!
Le Castelet is pretty much entirely made up of streets like this. Very close to Cassis.
We've been to pretty much everywhere they mention except the Camarque (although we probably drove through some of it going to Arles) and Lyon. Elaine, I know you loved Lyon. A colleague of Jim's when he was teaching in France invited us to come and stay with her family but when we heard we were going to be on a hide-a-bed and there was a new puppy not yet house trained, we decided to give it a pass. Funny about Le Castelet which is a mountain village and the first time we visited it was in 1976 and there were very few people. The next time in 2002, there was a huge parking lot filled with cars and tour buses and the streets were packed...what a change! It was a coolish Feb day and we worried about getting a place in a restaurant but it seems most of the tourists are just passing quickly through. Still, we lucked into a wonderful restaurant and were seated by the open fire and could watch our rack of lamb cook. Now, that was an amazing meal!
I think Cassis will always remain the most beautiful village on the Mediterranean for me...just love the place!
Le Castelet is pretty much entirely made up of streets like this. Very close to Cassis.
