Posts tagged: Alpilles

It is not often that Ginger gets to write about G&N adventures, but this experience warrants a post. As many of you know, Ginger is an airplane geek, and any experience related to flying gets serious precedence over most things. Man since the beginning of time, has wanted to escape the bonds of earth and fly like a bird. Fixed wing gliding provides man the opportunity to catch air currents and soar hour upon hour.

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Recipes & Travel:
Aeroclub Alpilles, aerodrome, Alpilles, Gliding, Mazet de Romanin, St Remy

It seems odd that this village was not named “les beaux” (the beautiful).
Impossibly perched on a plateau straddling a rocky peak of les Alpilles, the castle and hamlet of les Baux de Provence does deserve its title as one of the “Most Beautiful Villages in France”.  The revived town site offers visitors sweeping views of the stone crags, a valley filled with plains of olives and rows of grapevines and in the distance the Mediterranean.

However, les Baux is not in reference to good looks.
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Recipes & Travel:
Alpilles, Les Baux, Les Baux de Provence, Provence