Blogs from Saint-Remy-de-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe - page 3

Matt and I woke up in our room in Nice the following morning, checked out, and rolled our suitcases (I definitely overpacked... rolling 2 suitcases and carrying 2 big purses doesn't work that well in Europe) to the Hertz location near the water. We walked across the street to the underground parking lot and after loading the car up, we were on our way to out next destination... St Remy! The freeways in France look like they could be anywhere in the US, but once we got off the main freeways and on to the smaller roads in the countryside, it finally felt like we were in Provence. The scenery (narrow tree-lined roads) reminded me of the movie "A Good Year." We probably drove some of the very same streets. A couple hours later, we arrived ... read more

Picture this: I'm in a taxi, driving RIGHT BY the foot of the Eiffel Tower. I am, I should say, smooshed in a taxi driving right by the foot of the Eiffel Tower. In front of me is the driver; beside him is a stick-thin, bleached-blond grandmother that refuses to let the kids call her so, talking a mile a minute about everything and nothing (in the moment I'm recalling, I believe it was to the taxi driver concerning the safety laws and regulations of driving small children in taxis. She wasn't fretting, just discussing casually, to have something to chat about more than anything I think.) To the far right of me there's two toddlers strapped together with the same seatbelt, one contentedly sucking a bottle of water, the other shouting monosyllabic toddler-speak: "choo-choo lolo! ... read more