Digne des Bains, Provence

By Dianne

Verdon Gorge

Hi everyone, We are cleaning and packing today, ready to leave Digne, heading for the UK. It has been a great stay, the area is far more beautiful than we hoped, and we hoped for a lot!! A wonderful house sit. We drove south to Verdon Gorge on Tuesday. We traveled in an anti-clockwise loop,…

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By Dianne

Surprise visit to Thoard

Now yesterday was a lazy Sunday –  a chill out day, just catching up on some emails, hanging about. We pulled out a local map to check out what little trips we could do from Digne, just familiarizing ourselves with the area. Anyway, we realized there were some minor roads and little villages at the…

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By Dianne

Chateauneuf-du-Pape

We drove to Chateauneuf-du-Pape today. Two to three hours drive, depending if you use the motorway. We used the motorway on the way over and then wound our way home through the countryside. We passed through Avignon on our way to Chateauneuf-du-Pape. A big city with a walled medieval city centre. We followed our Tom-Tom…

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By Dianne

Arriving in Provence

Back again, Enjoying our time in Digne-les-Bains, Provence – our current house sit. Our trip from Corfino was great – took a motorway that followed the Italian coast to the French border. Dropped off our little fiat hire car before catching the train to Nice. Had a bit of a wait, so just wandered around…

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