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Our village of Venterol in the foothils near Nyons
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The kids cook
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Provence solair
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Around Venterol
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A quick visit of Roman ruins in Vaison-la-Romaine
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and Olivia heads for Spain
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Farewell at the Marseilles airport
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The next day James has to get back to Oxford
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Salon-de-Provence. The Pompiers du Rhone testing their new engine- it fitted… just!
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On the way home, Paulie and Stephen drop in on Glanum. Wow.
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Originally setled 6th Century BCE by Phoenicians, taken on by the Romans by the legions of Marius in 102 BCE
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"Our pad is in the hills over there"
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Between Glanum and the hospital
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Van Gogh committed himself at the psych hospital at St-Rémy after a rough patch with Gauguin who stayed with him.
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Here he painted again
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Les oliviers (ciel jaune et soleit resplendissant)
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NEARLY taken from where he painted
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Into Avignon. The Papal Court moved here from Rome in 1309 for the reign of 7 French Popes
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The Papal Palace
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Acoss the Rhone to Villeneuve-les-Avignon
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