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Sunday, November 07, 2004

Crillon le Brave

Our trip to France is both wonderful and problematic.

Mostly, France is closed. By November the season really is over and a lot was closed. We landed in Marsailles and drove to Crillon le Brave, which is a tiny town near Avignon. It is a combination of authentic and restored renaissance buildings, really beautiful.

The hotel was lovely. Below are photos of the hotel, the town, the steps that are so old and worn down you can barely walk on them, a cat that visited us at breakfast and let me scratch his head, and various views from our window.

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Crillonstairsup

Crillonstairsdown

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Crilloncat

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Comments

Hi John, shame I think I might have been closed to when you visited Crillon-le-Brave, I have a small studio/Gallery their where I paint still life and landscape paintings of Crillon and the surrounding countryside. My wife, Ruth, is all so a musician (Cello) and we even had some of the Dufay collective play at our wedding! Have a look at my site which is going through a (blog based) re-design. www.stillives.com

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