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| This field was just so lovely...hundreds of vibrant poppies!!!! I loved it, everyone was taking photos of it. This is out the back of the hospital Vincent was in in St Remy. | (Mum, not long now until we're home, see you soon, Trace xx) |
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| View out the window of our hotel of the Mediterranean Sea and Cap Ferat |
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| Glanum Roman ruins, St Remy (We actually found these quite amazing) |
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| The view from Vincents bedroom in the hospital, St Remy |
We're here in Villefranche! Fantastic, it's more a continuation of Nice and we're way up on a hilltop. The view out the window is of the Mediterranean Sea, some distance away. We started off the day looking at Glanum,roman ruins out of St Remy,followed by the place Van Gogh spent many days when he was very ill.We then went on to Villefranche, a few hours drive away on a motorway. It's all been good today and we had quite a few conversations with other Aussies this morning and some funny discussions about our individual accounts of our dealings with French waiters and their rules!
The Grand Prix is on tomorrow........could be great.....could be awful!!! Stay posted and I'll let you know, we have our ear plugs ready!
There are five other cars out the front of our hotel....2 Mercedes, 1 BMW, 1 Porche and our little Renault and one other Renault. Interestingly enough the guy that got out of the other Renault had a Mark Webber tee shirt on so maybe he's another poor Aussie!!!!!!!LOL
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| Myself and Vincent! There was a bust of his head on a stand in front of this pic outside but somebody stole it, such a shame. |
I will only put up about 3 pics as the internet seems slow again.
I think you will find the GP a spectacular experience, even if it's not your cup of tea it's still a sight to see.
ReplyDeleteI am off to the Indy 500 tomorrow morning. Unfortunantely I won't be able to catch the GP on TV as I'll be making my way to the track. Please SMS me the result.
Indianapolis seems pretty horrible, to be honest. Just miles and miles of grey concrete. My hotel room is luxurious, I think I overdid it and could have gone somewhere a little more modest! You could host a party in here it's so big..
Indy 500 will be interesting, it's a huge event, literally 250,000 people attend the event. Of course there is no public transport and so I need to get a taxi there! Bloody yanks!
Hi Trace
ReplyDeleteLove these pics too. Even though Van Gogh may have been sick for a while in this place, the view out of his windows would have made him feel better and should have inspired him to do some paintings. I just love the view from his hospital window, you can see the Roman influence with the arches can't you?
Those fields of poppies are just the best too aren't they? We saw them throughout Italy as well.
Glad to hear you have hear plugs just in case for the big race. It could be Mark Weber's turn this time with you there to cheer him on.
Jan
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I just love that photo of you in front of the field of poppies.
Jan
Hi Jan thanks for that comment,it's very kind of you!!!!
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