Last week I shared stories and pictures from the first half of our trip in France, first in Paris, then in Dijon & Annecy. Today picks up with when we left Annecy to head south to Aix-en-Provence for a few days. We ended up only spending about 1 1/2 full days in Aix, and used it as a jumping off point for a few other places in the area. On the way to Aix we stopped for an afternoon in Orange to explore the roughly 2000 year old Roman Théâtre Antique. Much of the original stage wall is still intact and a nearby museum has an impressive collection of other artifacts and visualizations of the theater in its prime. The short drive from Orange to Aix was made about 30 minutes longer when traffic completely stopped on the highway for an emergency helicopter landing at an accident site, but I was impressed at how quickly the emergency crews cleared the road and got people moving again.
Bakers and Best 