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Good afternoon roomies.

I thought I’d share a few postcards of today’s adventures. Today we drove east into Provence which is famous for lavender, sunflowers (both of which have finished flowering) and the author Peter Mayle whose book “A year in Provence” ensured most of it is heaving with tourists... needless to say, we avoid the worst bits!

We started our day near one of those beautiful, but overrun by tourists, places - Les Baux de Provence. Les Baux was the centre for mining Bauxite (Aluminium ore) which is how it got its name. One of the old mines has been converted to Carrières de Lumières an amazing light and sound show where pictures are projected onto the walls and you can wander through the mine galleries watching the show.

There were two shows running - the first with 1960s music called Flower Power
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And the second, set to classical music, featuring Spanish artists like Goya and Picasso
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We then drove into the nearby Alpilles hills for a picnic lunch
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And then to the “trogloydytic” Abbey of Saint-Roman near Beaucaire.

It is on top of the hill and the Abbey was cut into the rock. There are many grave cuts visible in the rock; they were crammed in and certainly didn’t respect the traditional east-west orientation for a Christian grave!
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There was a fine view across the Rhone valley towards the Alpilles... the cruise liner turning round gives you an idea how big the river Rhone is at this stage!
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Good afternoon roomies.

I thought I’d share a few postcards of today’s adventures. Today we drove east into Provence which is famous for lavender, sunflowers (both of which have finished flowering) and the author Peter Mayle whose book “A year in Provence” ensured most of it is heaving with tourists... needless to say, we avoid the worst bits!

We started our day near one of those beautiful, but overrun by tourists, places - Les Baux de Provence. Les Baux was the centre for mining Bauxite (Aluminium ore) which is how it got its name. One of the old mines has been converted to Carrières de Lumières an amazing light and sound show where pictures are projected onto the walls and you can wander through the mine galleries watching the show.

There were two shows running - the first with 1960s music called Flower Power
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And the second, set to classical music, featuring Spanish artists like Goya and Picasso
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Amazing ! This is a light show that pleases me.
 

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We then drove into the nearby Alpilles hills for a picnic lunch
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And then to the “trogloydytic” Abbey of Saint-Roman near Beaucaire.

It is on top of the hill and the Abbey was cut into the rock. There are many grave cuts visible in the rock; they were crammed in and certainly didn’t respect the traditional east-west orientation for a Christian grave!
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There was a fine view across the Rhone valley towards the Alpilles... the cruise liner turning round gives you an idea how big the river Rhone is at this stage!
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Stunning pictures and views.
Have you seen wild white horses ? The Camargue horse ?
 

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Good afternoon roomies.

I thought I’d share a few postcards of today’s adventures. Today we drove east into Provence which is famous for lavender, sunflowers (both of which have finished flowering) and the author Peter Mayle whose book “A year in Provence” ensured most of it is heaving with tourists... needless to say, we avoid the worst bits!

We started our day near one of those beautiful, but overrun by tourists, places - Les Baux de Provence. Les Baux was the centre for mining Bauxite (Aluminium ore) which is how it got its name. One of the old mines has been converted to Carrières de Lumières an amazing light and sound show where pictures are projected onto the walls and you can wander through the mine galleries watching the show.

There were two shows running - the first with 1960s music called Flower Power
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And the second, set to classical music, featuring Spanish artists like Goya and Picasso
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WOW!!!!! That sounds (and looks!) AMAZING!!!!!!! Yet another item for my bucket list!!!!:D
 

Moozillion

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We then drove into the nearby Alpilles hills for a picnic lunch
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And then to the “trogloydytic” Abbey of Saint-Roman near Beaucaire.

It is on top of the hill and the Abbey was cut into the rock. There are many grave cuts visible in the rock; they were crammed in and certainly didn’t respect the traditional east-west orientation for a Christian grave!
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There was a fine view across the Rhone valley towards the Alpilles... the cruise liner turning round gives you an idea how big the river Rhone is at this stage!
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WOW!!!!! More and more amazing!!!!! :)
 

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We then drove into the nearby Alpilles hills for a picnic lunch
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And then to the “trogloydytic” Abbey of Saint-Roman near Beaucaire.

It is on top of the hill and the Abbey was cut into the rock. There are many grave cuts visible in the rock; they were crammed in and certainly didn’t respect the traditional east-west orientation for a Christian grave!
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There was a fine view across the Rhone valley towards the Alpilles... the cruise liner turning round gives you an idea how big the river Rhone is at this stage!
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Just amazing!!
I seriously need to get out more!!
 
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