After a little hiccup finding each other, our two blue dots moving from opposite ends of Europe finally met up in the quaint french village of Saint Remy de Provence.
This is my parents first trip to Europe in their new campervan and so far all is going well. They are much better provisioned with cooking gadgets and tool box, so it will be fun merging our two worlds into a mega van experience. It also means we have 5 dogs between us…chaotic fun!
To give both puppies (Frodo the red lab and Ernest are both around 1) a chance to meet and burn off energy, we all did the scenic loop walk around the village. There was a bit of argy-bargy but nothing serious, they soon split back into their own two packs. Jasper as always was in his own world wandering on ahead. Mabel was fine as long as nobody picked on Ernest, and poor Elsa the smallest of the group told the boisterous pups to bugger off and play rough away elsewhere.
We then had a nice walk around the village, there are lots of tourist shops but it’s pretty empty this time of year. God knows how a local had got his old car up the tiny winding streets to the top
Arles – link to Van Gogh
After lunch we drove on to Arles; a place known to have inspired several of Van Goghs paintings, and thus there are a few tourist links to him.
We visited the fountain and L’espace Van Gogh before heading for a walk by the swollen river and then to the centres roman amphitheatre.
We had a lovely catch up coffee and spent the evening eating a huge chilli con carne and playing Strategy. It’s so nice they came to visit, and she has bought a pile of post for me to sort through, and most importantly a little xmas tree for my van 🤣🎄 (Mark is not impressed).
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