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Last minute rest/shopping tips for Provence?˝
Dear rec.travel.europe ;-)
My husband, our reasonably well-behaved 1-yr old daughter and I are leaving for Provence tomorrow and would like your best restaurant/shopping tips. Our Itenary is: tomorrow arrive at Nice airport app. 14:00 - pick up car and head for Saint Remy our base for the week. In no particular order from Monday to and including Friday: Saint Remy, Arles, Nimes, Avignon, Aigues Mortes, Orange, Gordes and surroundings. Saturday November 8th - clear up house and head for flight at Nice airport app. 13:00. We'll focus mainly on Roman ruins, beautiful cold autumn landscape, great food and some shopping on markets and whereever we pass by. Our plan is to head out as soon as our daughter wakes up, see XX, have lunch at a good restaurant, see some more XX and head home in time for normal dinner/bedtime around 18:00. Playing/coffeebreaks thrown in as necessary. 1. Should we make phone reservations in advance when we bring our daughter? We'll bring her own HandySitt, plate/cup/spoon/fork anyhow 2. What will you recommend for lunch (spending limit 125Euro/meal for all incl. ˝ bottle wine& soft drinks) 3. any particular shopping recommendations - best markets, particular shops and addresses for textile, childrens clothes/toys/books, local food specialities and Santons? TIA Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen |
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Last minute rest/shopping tips for Provence?˝
Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen wrote:
Dear rec.travel.europe ;-) My husband, our reasonably well-behaved 1-yr old daughter and I are leaving for Provence tomorrow and would like your best restaurant/shopping tips. Our Itenary is: tomorrow arrive at Nice airport app. 14:00 - pick up car and head for Saint Remy our base for the week. In no particular order from Monday to and including Friday: Saint Remy, Arles, Nimes, Avignon, Aigues Mortes, Orange, Gordes and surroundings. Saturday November 8th - clear up house and head for flight at Nice airport app. 13:00. We'll focus mainly on Roman ruins, beautiful cold autumn landscape, great food and some shopping on markets and whereever we pass by. Our plan is to head out as soon as our daughter wakes up, see XX, have lunch at a good restaurant, see some more XX and head home in time for normal dinner/bedtime around 18:00. Playing/coffeebreaks thrown in as necessary. Sounds very dynamic, but St. Rémy is ideally located for this. 1. Should we make phone reservations in advance when we bring our daughter? No, not because of your daughter. At the risk of appearing snide, children are welcome in French hotels and restaurants. At this time of year the hordes are gone. 2. What will you recommend for lunch (spending limit 125Euro/meal for all incl. ˝ bottle wine& soft drinks) This is a large sum - your choices are vast. Get a red Michelin guide. 3. any particular shopping recommendations - best markets, particular shops and addresses for textile, childrens clothes/toys/books, local food specialities and Santons? Santons mostly located around Aubagne I think, though sold almost everywhere. Bernard Higonnet |
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Last minute rest/shopping tips for Provence?˝
Dear Bernard and everyone else ;-)
We know the "hordes" are gone - timing a trip to the outskirts of/outside the tourist season is one of several thing that can make travelling with a child easier. We have a Guide Michelin but as you say the choice is vast in and below the 125Euro pricerange - that's why we'd love a more personal recommandation/description ;-) Where would you take a 1-year old while still adhering to an ambition of trying out the best of the regional/national cooking? BTW less than 125Euro per meal would also do fine, but we're willing to splurge for lunch if the quality/price ratio is good ;-) When we were in Paris a couple of years back we toured the recommendations on Jacks homepage - they were dead on regarding the type and quality of food we're looking for. I'll see if he has recommandations for Provence. all the best Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen "Bernard T. Higonnet" wrote in message ... Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen wrote: Dear rec.travel.europe ;-) My husband, our reasonably well-behaved 1-yr old daughter and I are leaving for Provence tomorrow and would like your best restaurant/shopping tips. Our Itenary is: tomorrow arrive at Nice airport app. 14:00 - pick up car and head for Saint Remy our base for the week. In no particular order from Monday to and including Friday: Saint Remy, Arles, Nimes, Avignon, Aigues Mortes, Orange, Gordes and surroundings. Saturday November 8th - clear up house and head for flight at Nice airport app. 13:00. We'll focus mainly on Roman ruins, beautiful cold autumn landscape, great food and some shopping on markets and whereever we pass by. Our plan is to head out as soon as our daughter wakes up, see XX, have lunch at a good restaurant, see some more XX and head home in time for normal dinner/bedtime around 18:00. Playing/coffeebreaks thrown in as necessary. Sounds very dynamic, but St. Rémy is ideally located for this. 1. Should we make phone reservations in advance when we bring our daughter? No, not because of your daughter. At the risk of appearing snide, children are welcome in French hotels and restaurants. At this time of year the hordes are gone. 2. What will you recommend for lunch (spending limit 125Euro/meal for all incl. ˝ bottle wine& soft drinks) This is a large sum - your choices are vast. Get a red Michelin guide. 3. any particular shopping recommendations - best markets, particular shops and addresses for textile, childrens clothes/toys/books, local food specialities and Santons? Santons mostly located around Aubagne I think, though sold almost everywhere. Bernard Higonnet |
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Last minute rest/shopping tips for Provence?˝
"Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen" wrote in message ... Dear rec.travel.europe ;-) My husband, our reasonably well-behaved 1-yr old daughter and I are leaving for Provence tomorrow and would like your best restaurant/shopping tips. Our Itenary is: tomorrow arrive at Nice airport app. 14:00 - pick up car and head for Saint Remy our base for the week. In no particular order from Monday to and including Friday: Saint Remy, Arles, Nimes, Avignon, Aigues Mortes, Orange, Gordes and surroundings. Saturday November 8th - clear up house and head for flight at Nice airport app. 13:00. We'll focus mainly on Roman ruins, beautiful cold autumn landscape, great food and some shopping on markets and whereever we pass by. Our plan is to head out as soon as our daughter wakes up, see XX, have lunch at a good restaurant, see some more XX and head home in time for normal dinner/bedtime around 18:00. Playing/coffeebreaks thrown in as necessary. 1. Should we make phone reservations in advance when we bring our daughter? We'll bring her own HandySitt, plate/cup/spoon/fork anyhow 2. What will you recommend for lunch (spending limit 125Euro/meal for all incl. ˝ bottle wine& soft drinks) 3. any particular shopping recommendations - best markets, particular shops and addresses for textile, childrens clothes/toys/books, local food specialities and Santons? TIA Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen Cecile We saw some Santons made and sold in Le(s?) Baux de Provence, which is in your area and well worth a visit now that the hordes are gone. Gerrit |
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Last minute rest/shopping tips for Provence?˝
By all means by a Red Michelin guide today. I've always found its
recommendations on the mark, especially for reasonable, non-star rated restaurants. This is a great time of year to be in France because the weather is good and the crowds are minimal. I suggest you not make too rigid a plan each day and just scout out some of the attractions around each place you're in. And don't forget to taste those wines, especially Bandol. |
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Last minute rest/shopping tips for Provence?˝
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:58:05 +0100, "Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen"
wrote: Dear rec.travel.europe ;-) My husband, our reasonably well-behaved 1-yr old daughter and I are leaving for Provence tomorrow and would like your best restaurant/shopping tips. Our Itenary is: tomorrow arrive at Nice airport app. 14:00 - pick up car and head for Saint Remy our base for the week. In no particular order from Monday to and including Friday: Saint Remy, Arles, Nimes, Avignon, Aigues Mortes, Orange, Gordes and surroundings. Saturday November 8th - clear up house and head for flight at Nice airport app. 13:00. I would advise Aix rather than Orange, since you will get a reasonably similar Roman theater in Arles. You are going to get enough Roman arches and theaters without Orange, and there are many more interesting towns IMO. The shopping in Aix is good, also -- really, I don't see how you could not at least see it and say you had been to Provence. One of my favorite places in your general area is Fontaine de Vaucluse -- it is spectacularly beautiful. You park and have a pleasant walk down the river a bit, then come to the source of the Sorgue River, a pool that comes up a tube or spring 1000 feet deep. There is an old water-powered paper mill and several interesting little museums. On the subject of doing something a little different, you might also consider driving up to Les Baux, which is right down the road from St. Remy, for a couple of hours. Rousillon is a pretty town you would likely enjoy. L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue has a very famous and IMO very overrated antique/flea market area. I would say skip it altogether, except I got a great warm-duck salad there. My budget is a bit lower than yours and I never had anything less that fabulous food, btw, just picking restaurants by looking at them when lunchtime rolled around. I bought a full set of santons and love them. Two places I would recommend for them. Aix has an outdoor market with a wide selection of santon makers and is probably the best shopping. Aubagne is a pleasant little town with a lot of workshops for santons and other ceramics (you can also see a museum of the French Foreign Legion there if that would interest you, which I'm guessing it would not -- I went while my wife shopped). We'll focus mainly on Roman ruins, beautiful cold autumn landscape, great food and some shopping on markets and whereever we pass by. Our plan is to head out as soon as our daughter wakes up, see XX, have lunch at a good restaurant, see some more XX and head home in time for normal dinner/bedtime around 18:00. Playing/coffeebreaks thrown in as necessary. 1. Should we make phone reservations in advance when we bring our daughter? We'll bring her own HandySitt, plate/cup/spoon/fork anyhow 2. What will you recommend for lunch (spending limit 125Euro/meal for all incl. ˝ bottle wine& soft drinks) 3. any particular shopping recommendations - best markets, particular shops and addresses for textile, childrens clothes/toys/books, local food specialities and Santons? TIA Cecilie Thorning Jacobsen Mason Barge "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee." -- Abraham Lincoln |
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Last minute rest/shopping tips for Provence?˝
"Mason Barge" wrote in message ... I would advise Aix rather than Orange, since you will get a reasonably similar Roman theater in Arles. You are going to get enough Roman arches and theaters without Orange, and there are many more interesting towns IMO. The shopping in Aix is good, also -- really, I don't see how you could not at least see it and say you had been to Provence. The theatre in Orange has an almost completely original back wall! The one in Arles hasn't. Consequently the accoustics in Orange are fabulous! Don't miss Orange. Gerrit |
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