Bonsoir, mes amis. Oui, j’étudie le français avec Duolingo… it helped, a little bit.
Who doesn’t need a little vicarious travel right now? A full year-and-a-half after a trip? Or perhaps some pre-planning for places you may want to visit, or after the past couple months, relocate. I present to you: a recent trip to a very particular area in the south of France. This involved a (drumroll please) Viking River Cruise from Avignon to Lyon. Sort of… It became more off a bus trip due to the river being too high and rough to sail, but whatever. (They fully credited back the cruise, BTW.)
France is still France! Transportation and autonomy failures aside, it is always lovely. Were able to visit some of the scheduled stops from the original itinerary. Here’s the recap, and for fun, an informal assessment of whether or not I’d relocate there. Ha!
Arles
Home of Gauguin, Van Gogh, and the Romans, Arles is quite the charmer. Caesar himself visited, and built the cute little Roman arena that sits in the middle of the city. Though a high school gym class was there doing gladiator exercises, the modern use is mainly bull-fighting, and bull-jumping. It’s a whole thing apparently, and you’ll see nods to bull horns all over the city. Van Gogh even painted it.
