Tag: South of France

Festival d’Avignon

.Reading time 7 minutes.

The Festival d’Avignon has been taking place around July since it was founded in 1947.  My cousins and I drove to Avignon from Arles. Parking and traffic was kinda crazy but I’m used to NYC traffic and parking so it wasn’t really that bad. There are plenty of ways to get to Avignon but since […]

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A First Look at Nîmes

.Reading time 13 minutes.

Nimes is a town filled with Roman history. It was one of the richest and most heavily defended cities of the Roman Empire. This was the town I was most excited to see in Southern France. I discovered hotel and Airbnb prices were about the same so I chose to stay in a hotel. I […]

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Grasse

.Reading time 15 minutes.

Traveling to Grasse with my cousins was an amazing adventure I highly recommend, even if you don’t have amazing cousins to share it with. Grasse is where perfume was invented and about 20 minutes north of Cannes. The original town made leather goods in medieval times. This apparently is a very smelly process. They made […]

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Camargue

.Reading time 15 minutes.

After grabbing my morning coffee and croissant I headed to the Avis at the Nîmes railroad station to pick up my rental car for the day. I was heading to the Camargue region. Camargue is an area of southern France that is right along the Mediterranean. It is known for flamingos, white horses, cowboys, thatched […]

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Pont de Gard

.Reading time 16 minutes.

I started my journey to Pont de Gard from Avignon. You can reach Pont de Gard a number of different ways. I rented a car and drove since I was not planning to go back to Avignon. After Pont de Gard I would continue on to Nimes. You could also take a bus; from Avignon […]

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A Day in Avignon

.Reading time 6 minutes.

I started my day by wandering around town and going into Les Halls. This is a large market similar to the street markets but this one is permanent and happens every day except Monday. It was kind of empty and that made it nice to really look at what was being offered. There were stalls […]

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The Journey to Avignon

.Reading time 7 minutes.

I have a good friend from my childhood who now lives in Paris. Every year she goes away for about 2 weeks and sublets me her apartment. Since I love to travel 2 weeks is never enough so I usually go a week before or after so I can travel somewhere else in France and […]

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