Weekend wrapup...

Weeell, it was a fascinating one, let me tell you...

Mainly tied up with deciding our 2nd location in Provence. Come to think of it, I can't even remember what we did on Friday-- probably because the days are running together with staring at this computer, bouncing between tripadvisor, homelidays.com, and gites-de-france.com. Saturday was spent sleeping in, refining the search, and emailing a new crop of b&b's. Followed by staring intently at the inbox waiting for responses. Then remembering that France is 6 hours ahead and it was definitely past midnight over there.

Sunday, I awoke at 2am to the Ipod touch beeping a little email alert... !! EEEE! It was 8am in France and someone had emailed us back! I DID wait until 8am OUR TIME to check it, but dreams of which idyllic location it could be entered my head a few times in those few hours...

Turns out it was the grand Les Trois Sources in beautiful Bonneiux. The rooms I were drooling over, of course, fell in the 120-140Euro category (too pricey for this leg of the trip...)

Turns out our room would have looked more like this:

Am I complaining? Heck no! But at 90Euro, we'd still have two twin beds (there was a language barrier regarding whether they could be pushed into a King, so I didn't belabor the point.)

So, luckily, another little gem emailed back... I'd been fascinated by the website for awhile now, though photos of the actual lodging were somewhat elusive. With some digging, I was able to find an alternative website, including room photos. There are only two rooms, so I'm thinking this is ours.

So, that's pretty much the second leg of our trip. We'll be staying in Oppede, one of the little towns in the Luberon. From what we've read, it's a nearly deserted medieval town that has recently started to be refurbished. Our place is right outside of Oppede (1km), and I'm very much looking forward to hiking up the old stone stairways to the old town.

So. The final leg just needs to be planned... the westernmost part of the trip near the Camargue-- the land of the white horses, bulls, and Spanish influence...We got a taste of that ( kind of...) over Valentine's Day, when we went to what used to be Emilio's, (now called Cafe Galicia.) We feasted on my favorite of all time--- garlic potato salad and sangria, as well as other tapas. I can only hope that we are as well fed on the trip!