We had a rough route/plan in our heads, so decided to stop off in Provence on the way through. Now the journey was interesting, back on our favourite toll roads again but this time our wing mirror protector on the passenger side decided to extract itself from the van! It’s now laid to rest somewhere on the A8 between Cannes & Aix en Provence. The site was in a small village just outside of Aix en Provence, overlooking the Sainte Victoire mountains with a much appreciated shaded pitch & swimming pool! What we didn’t bank on was the temperatures hitting still hitting 35 degrees. The bus took us from right outside the site to Aix en Provence, the bus driver took pity on us & didn’t charge us for our trip down. It was market day & what a market, actually wished we’d got there sooner as they were packing up not long after we arrived. A fantastic selection of clothing, hats & bags for the fashionista’s. The produce markets were split across different squares in the city & the produce & flowers looked top notch. We spent several hours just getting lost in the maze of streets/squares, had a couple of pitstops, took some photo’s & found the “Penis Balconies” before heading back. The bus driver took our fare off us for the return journey. For part of the journey, we thought we were in a racing car rather than a bus, he was overtaking on blind bends & hanging over the edge of the narrow mountain roads. Fortunately it was only a 20 minute journey, so we celebrated our safe return with a dip in the pool & tried the lavender liqueur (bought in Valensole ) with chilled Prosecco.
