Lyon, France: Last Week in Vaison Le Romaine, Provence, Part III: Everything Else

This is the final set of images from our magical week in Provence. Our rental house was an old farmhouse with a big "garage" that once was a wine producing site. Here are the presses:

A detail of one of the walls in the kids' bedroom -

Here we are in Vaison Le Romaine, a gorgeous town with Roman ruins (complete with sewers and ampitheatres) and a medieval neighborhood. David's wearing the pork pie hat he bought there -

We went to dinner the last night in Vaqueryas, at Les Dentelles (the name for the teeth-like mountains nearby), where Val and Laura and we had a great lunch a couple months ago and where David, Andy and I had eaten 10 years ago. We had fun and so did the kids, but the food was disappointing.

Typical trees in Vaison Le Romaine -

On the way to the delicious cherry trees, down the road from our house -

A view of the pool from the upstairs kids' window. The pool water cascades over those stone steps where lots of passive bees hovered all day....

Zillah lounging by the pool....

Throughout the medieval neighborhood of Vaison le Romaine, the city has installed large black and white photographs of the people of Vaison. I love this project!

You can see the b+w photo of children at the fountain in wintertime in the background and the summertime fountain in the foreground - so simple and moving....

Boule and Rosa's little hands on the edge of the frame, reminding me of Meatyard....

We stopped in Nyons for lunch on our way home to Lyon. Nyons is home to the best olive oil on the planet and delicious olives, both of which you can purchase at the big cooperative downtown. We had a lovely lunch where we learned the olive oil drizzled over melon trick. I had roasted eggplant, a disk of fresh goat cheese sprinkled with thyme, green beans, fresh bread and a roasted tomato sprinkled with rock salt. This memorial to those who died fighting against the Nazis, was near the restaurant on a very public and alive square. Made me wish Chapel Hill had a square of cafes and memorials....