On Tuesday we drove around Chateauneuf du pape and went to some wine tastings. We finished with a picnic in a valley near there.
We started the day Wednesday with a trip to the market where Yann bought ingredients to cook us a French dinner. We also traveled to the Camargue – an area south of Arles that is a protected nature area. We felt like we had left Provence and entered Florida. There were swamps and flamingos and the architecture of the buildings was much more like Florida than Provence. We saw the white horses that the riders ride to herd the local bull population. We went back to Arles and watched those bulls in the “Courses Camarguaises.” They are bull races that take place in the 2000 year old Roman amphitheatre. Fifteen men try to grab ribbons off the horns of a bull. The bull is not harmed. One of the bulls jumped over the wall and into the outer ring – two times!
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