Bare trees, houses hurdled together, a mild ray of sunshine over the old town on a cold winter afternoon. Arbres nus, maisons serrées les u...

Epines d'hiver.

Rue Saint Agricol In summer the café cum ice cream parlor le Goeland (the seagull) shows a very different face: the glass windows are pushe...

Le Réveillon is the name given to the two big evening meals the French have on Christmas night (December 24th) and New Year's Eve (Dece...

Rue Saint Charles Last days of shopping before Christmas. From talking to shop keepers, I understand that this December hasn't been as b...

nPlace Pie Santa's youngest daughter is a pretty girl. Pity she's always dressed in black... La plus jeune des filles du Père Noël e...

Place de l'horloge Evening crowd at the Christmas market. Foule du soir au au Marché de Noël.

Route de Sorgues In the dead of winter, when Provence doesn't quite resemble what you see on postcards. Au creux de l'hiver, quand ...

Comparing apples with apples: Depending on where you buy them, the difference in price and quality can be huge even if all are grown in Prov...

Rue des teinturiers Remember my Art is Digestion post of 18 November? (scroll down or click here ) Well there's some news, someone cam...

Gondolas and bridges, yes it's Venice of course. I had never been there before and the Doges city proved more of a delight than I had im...

Meet the author - in action but not in Avignon. This photo was taken last week in front of a Palace that isn't the Popes'. Can you g...

Villeneuve lez Avignon Can you guess what this is? The bottom photo will help you. It shows the thick bushes of prickly pears growing at the...

Place de l'horloge Yes I practiced a bit of magic on this image. If you want to figure out what you're seeing, take a fourth of the ...

No post processing on this photo - just the reflection of my desk lamp in the glass of my bedroom window. I love the warm and soft glow it p...

Rue Joseph Vernet December 1st is theme day for City Daily Photo bloggers worldwide and today's theme is Circles and Spheres . I used a ...

Place Saint Didier Above the "Passé Présent" sign for a decoration and antiques shop whose two windows you see here, an ancient en...

Rue des fourbisseurs In one of Avignon's pedestrian streets is a cool shop called "Madame promène son chien" (Madame walks her...

Place de la Principale White Penitents chapel as seen from place de la Principale. At 3:30 pm the shadows already grow dark inside the city...

Place de l'Horloge Every third Thursday in November an important local event takes place where the first wine of the year (called "...

Rempart des allées de l'Oulle Oh what a divine surprise to find along Avignon's remparts a shrub of bottlebrush, a flower for me dee...

Rhône river , just upstream of Avignon Along the river Rhone, mid-afternoon. There are quite a few sailboats and pleasure craft like these...

Rue des teinturiers Art is Digestion - fancy saying that to a passer-by eating a packet of chips! (or crisps for the British). It takes a bi...

Verger Urbain V For those of you who could ignore it, Nicolas Sarkozy is our President and the fear expressed here is related to the new EDV...

Place du Palais des Papes He goes out at the same time every afternoon, walks among the tourists along the glorious facade of the Popes Pala...

Pont d'Avignon The Saint Benezet chapel was built on the third pilar of the Pont d'Avignon as a tribute to young shepherd Benezet wh...

Rue Ferruce The Châtelet (which means "little castle") is the fort giving access to the Pont d'Avignon (St Bénezet Bridge). Th...

Rue Violette I've walked in rue Violette many times before but I had no idea what lied behind the tall grey walls lining the street. The...

Jardin des Doms A nos morts. To our dead. This is Avignon's monument to the victims of World War I (1914-1918). I like the way the su...

Villeneuve lez Avignon Notre Dame des Doms cathedral was built high up on the rocky outcrop of Rocher des Doms, which makes it visible from ...