France 2010

My original plan was more adventurous, but due to the combination of an earthquake and too much going on at home (and that does not mean work!), I never went to Chile as I had intended. However, I had very good reasons to escape over Easter. I recalled Saint-Jean Pied-de-Port in the French part of the Basque lands where I spent one day and half there ten years ago, and which I really had enjoyed, not the least because there are plenty of walking opportunities. With this in aim I booked a flight to Paris, but since the weather forecasts were not too promising for the first week, I took a roundabout way to Saint-Jean. When I landed in Paris, I immediately jumped on a train to Arles, which is about 100 km west of Marseilles and I stayed there for a three days. I then moved west and stopped by in Carcassonne. For the Easter weekend, I saw four cities in two days, and eventually on Easter Monday I arrived in Saint-Jean for five wonderful days. Then I traded mountains for the sea, and I got two sunny days in the Basque beach resort Saint-Jean-de-Luz. The last two days I spent in Paris, before it was time to fly home - the day before the volcanic ash stopped all flights.

As always, the trip resulted in too many pictures. Below is a summary of 44 pictures, and then there are six sub-sites:

Svensk version

Arles

1. Entrance Arles
 

2. The Amphitheatre
 

3. Café la Nuit
La Camargue

4. Flamingos
 

5. Drifting Sand
The Alpilles

6. Hole in the Mountain
 

7. Through the Hole
 

8. The Alpilles
Carcassonne

9. Carcassonne
 

10. Cité II
 

11. Canal du Midi
 

12. Mountain View
Four Cities

13. Auch
 

14. Hedge
 

15. Place Capitole, Toulouse
 

16. Musée Bernadotte
 

17. Boulangerie
 

18. Bayonne
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

19. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
 

20. Baguette
 

21. The Man and his Dog
 

22. Landscape Saint-Jean I
 

23. Landscape Saint-Jean II
 

24. Landscape Saint-Jean III
 

25. The Church in Ascarat
 

26. The Old Town
 

27. Landscape Saint-Jean IV
 

28. Landscape Saint-Jean V
 

29. Landscape Saint-Jean VI
 

30. Landscape Saint-Jean VII
 

31. Landscape Saint-Jean VIII
Saint-Jean-de-Luz

32. Sentier littoral
 

33. Blue Flower
 

34. Saint-Jean Baptiste
 

35. The Beach
 

36. Promenade
Paris

37. Champs de Mars
 

38. Arc de Triomphe
 

39. Place de la Concorde
 

40. Champs-Elysées
 

41. La Géode
 

42. Bike
 

43. Île Saint-Louis
 

44. Paris Street Corner

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