Finding Vincent Van Gogh

Today did not go as planned! 

We just wanted to go to the pont du gard and then maybe to Avignon. (We never got to Avignon😉)

The motorway was full of lorries and standstills with congestion so we looked on the map and stopped following our sat nav. 

There was a scenic road through the alpilles cliffs to St Remy

We decided to try that way. It was so pretty. Vegetables fruit and nut trees and olives and vines growing all around. 

When we got to the Roman ruins at cloitre St Paul we missed the car park and so turned off the road only to find by chance we were at the mausole hospital where Vincent Van Gogh spent his last year of life.

There was an exhibition of all his paintings he did in this area of Provence .

We could pay to see the hospital and his reconstructed bedroom which he painted. The church was so lovely and the gardens. It is still a psychological hospital and patients still reside there.

We walked back to the Roman ruins across the road.

From there we travelled along the rhone river to pont du gard. 

Returning to our ground floor flat at Fos sur mer we realised we are very close to the flamingoes in the marshes! You can see them from a dual carriageway but no parking opps We will try to get close to them tomorrow as we hunt for wild horses. 

Such a busy day.