Saint Paul de Vence
We went to a little modern art museum in Saint Paul de Vence, which is about a two-hour bus ride directly east of Aix. This painting is called "La Vie," by Marc Chagall.
Here is a really pretty stained glass window that we saw in the museum as well.
Haha....this one's kind of funny because this painter had three or four really weird ones like this. They all looked completely different and crazy, but had the same title: "Bird woman," or something like that. My friend Rachel is holding up 2 fingers because this was supposedly "Bird woman" #2.
The museum had some very nice gardens with lots of sculptures. There's something beautiful and yet haunting about this one, I think.
I had to make this one bigger. It's just so gorgeous and you have to see it up close. All I can say is that it doesn't even compare to seeing the real thing.
I didn't go up there to see the church, but we had a nice view of the bell tower from here.
This is at the foot of the hill the small city was on. Literally, that's all it was - a hill.
I loved this place. It was so quiet and quaint. It's a pretty touristy place, though.
This was in one of the shop windows. It's great, right?
I walked around in this cemetery. It was really pretty and peaceful, although some of the coffins were falling apart. That was a little bit creepy.
I think this is my favorite one right here.
Antibes
This is the view from the balcony of another modern art museum they took us to...this is the third one we've been to so far. It's a bit excessive if you ask me. But it was worth it just to see this view.
Me and my friend Celina.
We weren't allowed to take pictures in the musem which is why I don't have very many from this city, but here's what it looks like from the outside. (I didn't take this). It's supposed to be a Picasso museum, but there actually weren't very many of his paintings and they were all on the very top floor. It took us forever to find them.
Here are some pictures of our program's trip to Le Luberon yesterday. The movie Jean De Florette was filmed in this region.
The guide told us that the mineral found in the rock here is what makes it look orange. It was really pretty.
I thought this was such a cool painting on the front of this old door. We stopped in a little village for lunch and to get out of the wind and cold.
This was taken at L'Abbaye de Sénanque.
L'Abbaye de Sénanque.
Inside the abbey.
I really like this picture for some reason.
This is the abbey's courtyard. We were all freezing, but it was a really peaceful place.
Our tour guide told us that these are the only two columns with different designs at the top. The column on the left was, at one time, located at the very center of the abbey - which explains why they gave it its own design.
We had some time to kill after our visit at the abbey, so we stopped in another little city in Luberon. I took this one from the bus.
For me, at least, this day was mostly cold and uneventful until I saw this view. That made it worth it.
