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Weekend in Provence!

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March 19th 2013
My weekend in Provence was fantastic! We visited 4 different cities in just two days, and packed in an amazing amount of site seeing. Everywhere we went was incredibly beautiful. The first day, we met up at the train station at 6:30 AM to go to Avignon, which is almost 700 km away from Paris, in the South of France. We had a beautiful sunny day (although quite chilly and windy--uncharacteristic fo ... read more

Europe » France » Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur » Avignon

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