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Provence in the Rain

Source: www.capecodtoday.com. Posted on 05 May 2007.

To see France's famed Provence area in the rain is an utter travesty, but not to see it at all is double jeopardy. So, I only imagined what impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh saw. The 120 mile per hour train picked me up at the Paris train station in Gare de Lyon and deposited me two and a half hours later in Avignon, the hub of Provence. The clouds were spiraling in long, gray tubes on the way down. Oh well, the vineyards needed the rain and so did the fields. Small consolation! The first photo on right is the Pope's Palace from the river.

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