Ouvrez La Voie

A week before school started (more on that, soon!) we hopped in a tiny rental car and drove 7 hours on some verrrry windy roads to Provence and the little town of Palud Sur Verdon (population 340). Our home for the week was a 400 year old stone farmhouse with a big walled in garden full of snails sunning on the brick paths. The girls were thrilllllllled to have a yard again and hardly came inside after the rains passed. We loved the early morning walks past cow and sheep fields to pick up croissants and baguettes in the village. And loved the deep quiet of the Provence countryside. The girls said that Palud reminded them of Princeton. 🙂

Palud is situated in the Gorges National Park, called the Grand Canyon of Provence. It is a rock climber’s paradise with huge long routes that start from way down at the bottom of the canyon.