Hello Everyone! Yes, I'm back already with another trip to report. We had been talking with our traveling companions, Rollie and Boo Conner, about this trip since 2018. It was finally time to do it. And we are glad we did. It was a great trip. 

We flew across on Oct 9th, landing in London on the 10th and connected to Marseille. We stayed the night there, planning to meet our friends the next day. Jeanne Marie found us a nice little hotel just a very short walk from the village of Saint-Victoret. There's a lovely little waterfall right where you enter the village, a nice little church and all of the casual street food goodies of French cuisine. Crepes, croissants, omelettes, ham on buttered baguette, pain au chocolat...  We did not hesitate. The gorging commensed immediately!   

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 Now I’ve been reading for years that the South of France has way more in common with the rest of the Mediterranean than with the part of the country, say across from England. This was a well known fact to me. But is still quite jarring to see Italy or Spain everywhere I looked. This was obvious even coming in on the plane. Tile roofs, pinnacle pines, olive trees,  architecture, umbrella pines,  even the color of the dirt, all made me think “Italy”. Not only that but as we shall see in future posts, there are Roman ruins everywhere.

The Conners arrived on schedule the next day, the rental car was retrieved, and we were on our way to the medieval town of Uzes, about an hour and thirty minutes northwest, where we would be based for the next two weeks. Uzes is a town of about 8,000 which made it the perfect size for our needs. It had the groceries, bakeries, restaurants, churches etc but we could easily walk the entire town. We soon established the routine of walking up to the cafe for fresh pastries and coffee in the morning. Here's a quick glimpse of the town.

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More about Uzes in future posts.