Provence : le soleil brille, les cigalles chantent

Goodbye wet and cold, miserable Pyrennees; the only place for the sun to be found is Provence
Another trip to the lovely Gorge du Verdon

 Great corners

 Moustiers

 Sainte Croix

La Gorge du Verdon

 

Went to Marseille to visit Francois, a long time journalist friend and ended at a Media conference in Aix en Provence

  

 

Marseille is quite an interesting city

 

 People walking upside down

 The effect of a huge Mirror, ceiling at the fish market

Cathedrale La Major

 

Les mosaics au sol

 

 Le Musée

 

Le Panier is a very old district

Savon de Marseille is the best soap in the world

 Vamos a la playa....ou au bar boire un pastis!(going to the beach or to the pub?)

narrow Streets, advertising on garage doors

 

 

At the fish market, the fisherman cleans the fish on his boat parked just behind his wife stall

 

 

 A visit to the Calanques is a must, some people own a ,cabanon (fisherman s schack) no water, no electricity but a boat or two in the driveway....

 On a hot day the bay is bathing in fog

 Beaches are busy

  Calanque de Morgiou

Tough walk up the Calanque at Sormiou

 

The best way to cook muscles for a party

 

 
 
 
 


Went to see the arrival of the Tour de France in Marseille, they come so fast this is what you get....

The leader

The peloton

JC and Chris took me for a nice ride on the Gineste, Cassis, Gémenos, Le Castelet best windy roads

 

All ending with a glass of mojito at the Pointe Rouge Sunset

dont ask why 2 sunsets, it is a technical problem with the blog that I am not able to solve

 

Riding through the Lavender fields to the next venture