We spent five days in Provence, renting an apartment just oustide L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, a medium-sized village. The apartment was well-appointed with a kitchen (important to Matt) and high speed Internet (important to me). The kitchen gave us the ability to cook dinners from ingredients purchased as the large Intermarche grocery store, farmer’s market, or local shops. We ate very well – favorite meal of mine was on our anniversary: fresh ravioli with ham and cheese from the butcher shop of all places in a simple butter sauce. We drank the wines we’d picked up wine tasting one day and enjoyed getting to splurge at lunchtime due to our much cheaper dinners.

It’s important to note that the temperature was in the upper 60s and we had clear, bright blue skies though there was one weather downside: the mistral. It’s a wind that whips to the Northwest and is strong enough at times to make you feel like you’re goint to get knocked over. Thankfully, we both had wind-resistant jackets but, man, without it – it was freezing! I loved Provence but was more than a little happy to leave the mistral behind when we left.

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I feel horrible lumping all of our five day visit to Provence into a single post but, well, I’ve got a problem. I made notes on which towns we visited each day, sure, but which photos go with which town, umm, well, not so much. So, I’ll simply tell you that the photos below come from one of the towns in Provence, the Luberon, or Cote de Rhone. Helpful, huh? You’ll have to come visit, yourself, to do real town identification.

Note: Avignon will get its own post because I know, for sure, which photos were taken there.

(Also, I have a feeling I have a different memory card with more photos on it – that or I was so distracted by the beauty of this region to take any more photos than this. Thse are just the highlights but, still, I must have taken more than 10 photos a day.)