After we completed a tour of the city of Arles, complete
with Roman amphitheater and forum ruins, we had a short (20 km) bike ride that
led us past “Carmargue” horses and bulls, and many rice fields. We then had our
first actual ride on the boat, down the Petit Rhone – a western branch of the
Grand Rhone – before docking for the evening.
We are now in the Camargue - an area of the Rhone delta that has been
preserved as a botanical and zoological nature reserve. The horses are born
brown but turn white within a few years.
Each little village seems to have a carousel. Our 'guide-in-training' Bert, decided to buy a ride for the whole group. Marj picked the tiger.
Marj’s contribution to today’s blog:
“Roman ruins and Van Gogh’s madness – that pretty well sums up our day. Croissant for breakfast and bruschetta for lunch – can’t get much better than that.”
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