I have a confession to make. I haven’t been quite as enthusiastic about this trip as I have been previous ones. It might be because I’m not really doing anything new this time around, or maybe I’ve just lost my passion somewhere along the way. But then I went to see Carrieres de Lumieres in the little town of Les Baux-de-Provence and I remembered why I do this. I feel like I’ve seen as many ruins, shops and old churches as I need to in a lifetime, but I have never seen an exhibition quite like this one. Van Gogh and Japan make a perfect marriage as art, sound, light and movement combine in a transcendental experience. A former quarry houses one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. Every photo I took does not do it justice, so I’ll link to a video and urge you to beg borrow or steal to find your way to the heart of Provence to see this before it ends.

This has also served to remind me that travel is (for me) a transformative process and I should seek to do things that feed the soul rather than just deplete the wallet.

Bringing back that joie de vivre

Speaking of depleting the wallet, we’ve now hit the Cote d’Azur and staying in the basement of a hotel in Cannes. It’s all we could afford, but we’re splashing out when we hit Cinque Terre tomorrow 🙂